Reforming or conforming? : post-conservative evangelicals and the emerging church / [print]
edited by Gary L.W.
- Wheaton, Illinois : Crossway Books, (c)2008.
- 300 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographies and index.
The doctrine of scripture : only a human problem/ Sola scriptura as an evangelical theological method? / John Bolt -- No easy task: John R. Franke and the character of theology/ Whosoever will be saved: emerging church, meet Christian dogma/ "Right reason" and theological aesthetics at Old Princeton Seminary: the "mythical evangelical magisterium" reconsidered/ Cornelius Van Til: "principled" theologian or foundationalist? / Jeffrey C. Waddington -- Church and community or community and church? / Ronald N. Gleason -- It's "Wright," but is it right? An assessment and engagement of an "emerging" rereading of the ministry of Jesus/ Joyriding on the downgrade at breakneck speed: the dark side of diversity/ Entrapment: the emerging church conversation and the cultural captivity of the gospel/ Saved from the wrath of God: an examination of Brian McLaren's approach to the doctrine of hell/ The emergent church/ Paul Wells -- Paul Helm -- R. Scott Clark -- Paul Kjoss Helseth -- Guy Prentiss Waters -- Phil Johnson -- Martin Downes -- Greg D. Gilbert -- Gary Gilley.
Thirteen Reformed scholars take on postmodern evangelicals and provide a solid, biblical critique of their ideas. While self-described "post-conservative evangelicals" enjoy increasing influence in the evangelical world, they represent a significant challenge to biblical faith. Popularizers like Brian McLaren (of Emergent Church fame) trade on the work of scholars like Stan Grenz, John Franke, and Roger Olson, whose "innovations" represent a major makeover of traditional and historic evangelical theology. This is especially the case with the doctrines of Scripture, the atonement, and the character of God ;