Renewing the Center

by Grenz, Stanley J.

• ISBN13: 9780801031816
• ISBN10: 0801031818
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-01
• Publisher: Baker Academic

Summary

Renewing the Center is an important foundational book for the emerging church. The second edition includes a new foreword by Brian McLaren and a new afterword from John Franke updating the book for the contemporary church scene. Praise for the first edition: "Grenz has written a lively and engaging work that should help American evangelicals chart the challenging course of their theological future. He offers a balanced, carefully-argued, and lucid prescription for the way ahead. Accordingly, I highly recommend this book and hope that it receives the wide reading that it so richly deserves."--Kenneth J. Collins, author of The Evangelical Moment

Author Biography

Stanley J. Grenz (DTheol, University of Munich) was the Pioneer McDonald Professor of Theology and Ethics at Carey Theological College in Vancouver, British Columbia. A leading voice on the North American theological scene, he wrote or cowrote over twenty-five books, including A Primer on Postmodernism, Created for Community, and Revisioning Evangelical Theology.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(8)
Brian McLaren
Preface	15	(4)
Introduction: Evangelicalism in a Time of Transition	19	(14)
The Gospel and Awakening Evangelicalism	33	(28)
Scripture and the Genesis of the New Evangelicalism	61	(32)
The Shaping of Neo-Evangelical Apologetic Theology	93	(32)
The Expansion of Neo-Evangelical Theology	125	(34)
Evangelical Theology in Transition	159	(33)
Evangelical Theological Method after the Demise of Foundationalism	192	(34)
Theology and Science after the Demise of Realism	226	(31)
Evangelical Theology and the Religions	257	(38)
Evangelical Theology and the Ecclesiological Center	295	(38)
Renewing the Evangelical ``Center''	333	(28)
Afterword: An Agenda for the Future of Evangelical Theology	361	(10)
John R. Franke
Scripture Index	371	(2)
Author Index	373	(6)
Subject Index	379