THE CHART Period Time Dominant Question(s) Significance Christian Antiquity Ascension to 1650 (Old World) What has God said? Locus of authority is extrinsic Modernity 1650-1914 (Old World) 1789-1968 (New World) Has God said? Locus of authority is intrinsic (via rationalism, empiricism or . . . Continue reading →
Historical Theology
David Steinmetz on the Superiority of Pre-Critical Exegesis
David Steinmetz on the Superiority of Pre-Critical Exegesis (1980).
Nunc Super Tunc: Does History Matter?
The title is Latin for “Now is superior to then.”1 It’s a shorthand way of getting at an attitude, which is widespread among American Christians, that says whatever we think and do now is necessarily superior to anything that was thought and . . . Continue reading →
A Review of the Story of Christian Theology By Roger Olson
A REVIEW OF THE STORY OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY: TWENTY CENTURIES OF TRADITION AND REFORM, by Roger E. Olson. Intervarsity Press, 1999. 652 pp. $34.99. This review appeared originally in Modern Reformation, July/August 2001 Historical theology is an important part of the process . . . Continue reading →