Reforming or Conforming

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 Godall of which stand at the center of evangelical Christianity.InReforming or Conforming?, scholars such as John Bolt, Scott Clark, Paul Helm, and Paul Helseth join editors Gary Johnson and Ron Gleason in analyzing and critiquing the ideas of those who promote postmodernism as a positive force in theology. Pastors, laymen, and college students will find this book a helpful resource in understanding and refuting postmodern evangelicalism. Includes a foreword by David F. Wells.

GARY L. W. JOHNSON, pastor of the Church of the Redeemer, Mesa, Arizona, holds a ThM from Westminster Theological Seminary.

RONALD N. GLEASON, pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Yorba Linda, California, holds a PhD in systematic theology from Westminster Theological Seminary.

Contributors	p. 7
Foreword	p. 9
Introduction	p. 15
The Doctrine of Scripture: Only a Human Problem	p. 27
Sola Scriptura as an Evangelical Theological Method?	p. 62
No Easy Task: John R. Franke and the Character of Theology	p. 93
Whosoever Will Be Saved: Emerging Church, Meet Christian Dogma	p. 112
"Right Reason" and Theological Aesthetics at Old Princeton Seminary: The "Mythical Evangelical Magisterium" Reconsidered	p. 129
Cornelius Van Til: "Principled" Theologian or Foundationalist?	p. 154
Church and Community or Community and Church?	p. 166
It's "Wright," but Is It Right? An Assessment and Engagement of an "Emerging" Rereading of the Ministry of Jesus	p. 188
Joyriding on the Downgrade at Breakneck Speed: The Dark Side of Diversity	p. 211
Entrapment: The Emerging Church Conversation and the Cultural Captivity of the Gospel	p. 224
Saved from the Wrath of God: An Examination of Brian McLaren's Approach to the Doctrine of Hell	p. 245
The Emergent Church	p. 269
Index	p. 292
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