The Remaking of Evangelical Theology

by Dorrien, Gary J.

• ISBN13: 9780664258030
• ISBN10: 0664258034
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

In this in-depth historical analysis of evangelical theology, Gary Dorrien describes how evangelicalism has developed & matured. Beginning at the turn of the twentieth century & the start of the fundamentalist-modernist controversies, he notes the key figures & institutions of the evangelical movement.

Table of Contents

Introduction: What Is Evangelicalism?	1	(12)
Claiming the Gospel Message
Defining the Scripture Principle
1. Antimodernist Modernizers: The Making of Fundamentalist Evangelicalism	13	(36)
Luther, Calvin, and Protestant Scholasticism
Scholastic Certainty: Princeton Realism as Reformed Orthodoxy
Dividing the Word: Dispensationalism
Princeton Orthodoxy in the Fundamentalist Movement
Defending and Splintering Fundamentalism
Fundamentalism without Inerrancy
2. "Needing Prestige Desperately": Fundamentalism Reformed	49	(54)
Reforming Fundamentalism: The Founders
Carnell's "Sack Full of Arguments"
The Limits of Apologetics: Clark and Van Til
Is Rationality Enough?
Managing Fuller Theological Seminary
Personalizing Apologetics
Representing the New Evangelicalism
The Battle for Fuller Seminary
3. The Evangelical Crossroads: Rethinking Infallibility	103	(50)
Carl Henry and Evangelical Epistemology
Upholding Inerrancy Evangelicalism
Refiguring Word and Spirit: Bernard Ramm
Fundamentalism Reconsidered: Clark Pinnock
Rethinking Infallibility
Taking the Barthian Option
4. Arminian and Catholic Options: Opening Up Evangelicalism	153	(32)
Upholding the Wesleyan Difference
Word and Spirit in the Wesleyan Traditions
Appealing to the Great Tradition: Catholic Evangelicalism
The Arminian Turn
A Wideness in God's Mercy
5. Postconservative Evangelicalism: Dialogues in Search of a Generous Orthodoxy	185	(26)
Authorities in Dispute: Liberalism and Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism Beyond Modernity: Donald Bloesch's Catholic (Neo)Orthodoxy
Opening the House of Authority: Progressive Evangelicalism
Revelatory Narrative: Engaging Postliberal Theology
Taking Culture Seriously: New Horizons in Hermeneutics
Notes	211	(38)
Index	249