Reclaiming The Center

by Erickson, Millard J.

• ISBN13: 9781581345681
• ISBN10: 1581345682
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-09
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	11	(2)
Acknowledgments	13	(4)
PART 1: INTRODUCTION
An Introduction to Postconservative Evangelicalism and the Rest of this Book	17	(16)
Justin Taylor
Domesticating the Gospel: A Review of Grenz's Renewing the Center	33	(26)
D. A. Carson
PART 2: TRUTH, FOUNDATIONALISM, AND LANGUAGE
Truth Defined and Defended	59	(22)
Douglas Groothuis
The Premature Report of Foundationalism's Demise	81	(28)
J. P. Moreland
Garrett DeWeese
Language, Theological Knowledge, and the Postmodern Paradigm	109	(28)
R. Scott Smith
PART 3: THEOLOGICAL METHOD
Is Theological Truth Functional or Propositional? Postconservatism's Use of Language Games and Speech-Act Theory	137	(24)
A. B. Caneday
Postconservatism, Biblical Authority, and Recent Proposals for Re-Doing Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis	161	(38)
Stephen J. Wellum
Postconservatism: A Third World Perspective	199	(24)
Kwabena Donkor
PART 4: EVANGELICAL HISTORIOGRAPHY
Are Postconservative Evangelicals Fundamentalists? Postconservative Evangelicalism, Old Princeton, and the Rise of Neo-Fundamentalism	223	(28)
Paul Kjoss Helseth
Pietism and the History of American Evangelicalism	251	(30)
William G. Travis
Defining Evangelicalism	281	(26)
Chad Owen Brand
PART 5: POST-POSTMODERNISM
A Requiem for Postmodernism---Whither Now?	307	(16)
James Parker III
On Flying in Theological Fog	323	(28)
Millard J. Erickson
Scripture Index	351	(2)
Person Index	353	(8)
Subject Index	361