Reclaiming the Center: Confronting Evangelical Accommodation in Postmodern Times
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Overview
Reclaiming the Center is a valuable contribution to the study of contemporary evangelicalism. It is a guide for how evangelicals can move forward with wisdom and discernment without succumbing to the spirit of this age.
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- Contributes to the study of contemporary evangelicalism.
- Provides a guide for how evangelicals can move forward with wisdom and discernment.
- Includes theological, philosophical, and historical perspectives.
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1: Introduction
- 1 An Introduction to Postconservative Evangelicalism and the Rest of This Book
- 2 Domesticating The Gospel: A Review Of Grenz’s Renewing the Center
- Part 2: Truth, Foundationalism, and Language
- 3 Truth Defined and Defended
- 4 The Premature Report of Foundationalism’s Demise
- 5 Language, Theological Knowledge, and the Postmodern Paradigm
- Part 3: Theological Method
- 6 Is Theological Truth Functional or Propositional? Postconservatism’s Use of Language Games and Speech-Act Theory
- 7 Postconservatism, Biblical Authority, and Recent Proposals for Re-Doing Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis
- 8 Postconservatism: A Third World Perspective
- Part 4: Evangelical Historiography
- 9 Are Postconservative Evangelicals Fundamentalists? Postconservative Evangelicalism, Old Princeton, and the Rise of Neo-Fundamentalism
- 10 Pietism and the History of American Evangelicalism
- 11 Defining Evangelicalism
- Part 5: Post-Postmodernism
- 12 A Requiem for Postmodernism—Whither Now?
- 13 On Flying in Theological Fog
- Scripture Index
- Person Index
- Subject Index
When evangelicals confuse an improper passion for novelty with a proper pursuit of academic and pastoral relevance, the results can be distressing. I cannot express how grateful I am for the well-formed wisdom with which this book points to the abiding and decisive relevance for future route-finding of the old theological paths.
—J. I. Packer, Late Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology, Regent College
For those evangelicals who-like myself-are increasingly troubled by extravagant claims made by various evangelical scholars about the nature of the ‘postmodern’ challenge, as well as by earnest calls to develop new epistemological and theological perspectives in response to this challenge, the writers of these essays shed much light. This book is must-reading for everyone who wants to promote a clear-thinking evangelicalism for our contemporary context.
—Richard J. Mouw, President, Professor of Christian Philosophy, Fuller Theological Seminary
Here is a collection of intelligent, provocative, gutsy essays that dare to fly into the eye of the scholarly storm over evangelical identity. Though different perspectives are present even here, the underlying thesis is clear and worth heeding: the eager, and sometimes uncritical, embrace of postmodernist paradigms may be as premature as it has proven to be unproductive for the well-being of the evangelical church. One of the most important books of the new century!
—Timothy George, Distinguished Professor of Divinity, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University; General Editor, Reformation Commentary on Scripture