William C. Placher
Spread too thin
Reading this long book on theological literacy has left me mightily discouraged....
Out of the Flames, by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
Michael Servetus's Restitutio Christianismi is quite a book....
Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity, by Kathryn Tanner
Kathryn Tanner's first book, God and Creation in Christian Theology (1988), was technical, austere and tremendously important....
Saving faith, evangelical witness: Gauging Brian Gerrish
Saving and Secular Faith: An Invitation to Systematic Theology, by B.A. Gerrish
The Pilgrim Road: Sermons on Christian Life, by B.A. Gerrish; edited by Mary T. Stimming
Being postliberal: A response to James Gustafson
The editors have asked me--as, I assume, some sort of certified postliberal--to respond to James Gustafson's questions. For several reasons, I was probably a fool to agree.
...Helping theology matter: A challenge for the mainline
Several years ago, in the midst of one of its well-publicized battles about sex, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) proclaimed, "Theology matters." At first glance, this was a slogan to warm the hear...
The next C. S. Lewis?
By Stanley J. Grenz, What Christians Really Believe-and Why. (Westminster John Knox, 159 pp.)
...The Word as True Myth, by Gary Dorrien
By Gary Dorrien, The Word as True Myth: Interpreting Modern Theology. (Westminster John Knox, 287 pp.)
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