A Confessing Theology for Postmodern Times

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Summary: Surviving Method of the Church for the new world
Review: 1581341024 A Confessing Theology for Postmodern Times

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Rating:
Summary: Surviving Method of the Church for the new world
Review: 1581341024 A Confessing Theology for Postmodern Times

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Rating:
Summary: Surviving Method of the Church for the new world
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Rating:
Summary: Surviving Method of the Church for the new world
Review: Àý'ëÀû Áø¸®, °¡Ä¡, ±ÇÀ§°¡ ½ÇÁ¾µÈ ¼¼»ó¿¡¼­ ±³È¸' Áø¸®¿Í ºûÀÇ µî'ë°¡ µÇ¾î¾ß ÇÑ'Ù. ±×·³¿¡µµ ºÒ±¸ÇÏ°í ¿ì¸® ½Ã'ëÀÇ ¹®È­ÀÇ »ó'ëÁÖÀÇÀû »ç°í°æÇâÀ¸·Î ¸»¹Ì¾Ï¾Æ ±³È¸³»¿¡¼­µµ ÇÑ ¶§' ¹ÏÀ½ÀÇ ±³¸®¿¡ ±»°Ô ÀÇÁöÇÏ'ø ¸ð½ÀÀÌ »ç¶óÁö°í °³ÀÎÀÇ °æÇèÀÌ Áß¿äÇÑ ÀÚ¸®¸¦ Â÷ÁöÇÏ°Ô µÇ¾ú'Ù. º»¼­¿¡¼­' 12¸íÀÇ Àú¸íÇÑ ±âµ¶±³ ½ÅÇÐÀÚµéÀÌ ÀÌ·¯ÇÑ ¹®Á¦¿¡ 'ëóÇÒ ¹æ¹ýÀ» ¸ð»öÇÏ°í ÀÖ'Ù. postmodern ¼¼»ó¿¡¼­ ½ÅÇÐ ÇÔ (doing)ÀÇ ÀÚ·áµéÀ» ºñÆòÀûÀ̸鼭µµ °Ç¼³ÀûÀÎ (critical-constructive) ¹æ¹ýÀ» »ç¿ëÇÏ¿© Ž»öÇÏ°Ô Çϸç, Àå¾Ö°¡ µÇ' ¿ä¼Òµé¿¡ 'ëÇؼ­µµ ±¸Ã¼ÀûÀ¸·Î 'Ù·é'Ù. Áø¸®ÀÇ À§±â¿¡ óÇÑ ÀÌ ½Ã'ë¿¡ º»¼­' ¿ì¸®·Î Á¶Á÷½ÅÇÐÀû, ¼º¼­½ÅÇÐÀû ¹ÙÅÁÀ» ±»°Ô ÇØÁÖ' µµ¿òÀÌ µÉ °ÍÀÌ'Ù. ÆíÀÚ' Westminster Theological SeminaryÀÇ º¯ÁõÇÐ/¿ª»ç½ÅÇÐ ±³¼öÀÌ'Ù. ¸ñÂ÷' 'ÙÀ½°ú °°'Ù.HM Part 1: Resources 1. The Church's Dogma and Biblical Theology by Charles P. Arand 2. Sources of Lutheran Dogmatics: Addressing Contemporary Issues with the Historic Christian Faith by J. A. O. Preus III 3. Sources of Reformed Orthodoxy: The Symmetrical Unity of Exegesis and Synthesis by Richard A. Muller Part 2: Challenges 4. A Defense of a Postmodern Use of the Bible by Edgar V. McKnight 5. The Vinyl Narratives: The Metanarrative of Postmodernity and the Recovery of a Churchly Theology by Richard Lints 6. Overcoming the Schizophrenic Character of Theological Education in the Evangelical Tradition by D. G. Hart 7. Reformist Evangelicalism: A Center Without a Circumference by R. Albert Mohler, Jr. Part 3: Opportunities 8. Is Reformation Theology Making a Comeback? by David P. Scaer 9. Full Circle: "Confessing" Mainliners by Paul F. M. Zahl 10. Yale Postliberalism: Back to the Bible? by Michael S. Horton 11. Reintegrating Biblical Theology and Dogmatics by Paul R. Raabe 12. Redemption and Resurrection: An Exercise in Biblical-Systematic Theology by Richard B. Gaffin, Jr.

Rating:
Summary: Like Fish Out of Water
Review: First, let me say that this book is a fine compendium of Reformed theology and dogmatics. However, I got the impression that most of its contributors were unable to address the problem of Postmodernism directly. One article that had little if anything to say about the matter was Richard B. Gaffin Jr.'s 'Redemption and Resurrection'. If this volume is thematic, It made no sense to include it, since it makes no direct reference to Postmodernity.

The only profitable articles in this volume that attempt to address the Postmodern question are found in Part 2: Challenges. I especially appreciated the contributions of Edgar V. McKnight, Richard Lints and D.G. Hart. McKnight & Lints seem to have accepted the fact that Postmodernity isn't going to revert back to rationalistic modernity at any time in the near future. As a result, we must look for those aspects of Postmodernism that can aid our proclamation of the Gospel. Regardless of where one stands on the postmodernity acceptance/rejection scale, the issue is that God has sovereignly allowed the onset of the Postmodern era. I'm just not certain that the Reformed tradition, that was forged in the fires of rationalism, is capable of adequately responding to Postmodern culture. Furthermore, I'm not certain God ever intended his truth to be 'reasonable', at least not in an anthropocentric sense anyway. Instead of clinging to time-honored traditions for dear life, I think it best to formulate new ways of communicating them in light of the current Postmodern situation.

If Michael S. Horton and his colleagues produce more volumes such as this, I hope they will offer more solutions instead of merely diagnosing the problem of postmodernity. That said, this volume is a worthy contribution to the current Postmodern situation presented from a Reformed perspective.

Rating:
Summary: Like Fish Out of Water
Review: First, let me say that this book is a fine compendium of Reformed theology and dogmatics. However, I got the impression that most of its contributors were unable to address the problem of Postmodernism directly. One article that had little if anything to say about the matter was Richard B. Gaffin Jr.'s 'Redemption and Resurrection'. If this volume is thematic, It made no sense to include it, since it makes no direct reference to Postmodernity.

The only profitable articles in this volume that attempt to address the Postmodern question are found in Part 2: Challenges. I especially appreciated the contributions of Edgar V. McKnight, Richard Lints and D.G. Hart. McKnight & Lints seem to have accepted the fact that Postmodernity isn't going to revert back to rationalistic modernity at any time in the near future. As a result, we must look for those aspects of Postmodernism that can aid our proclamation of the Gospel. Regardless of where one stands on the postmodernity acceptance/rejection scale, the issue is that God has sovereignly allowed the onset of the Postmodern era. I'm just not certain that the Reformed tradition, that was forged in the fires of rationalism, is capable of adequately responding to Postmodern culture. Furthermore, I'm not certain God ever intended his truth to be 'reasonable', at least not in an anthropocentric sense anyway. Instead of clinging to time-honored traditions for dear life, I think it best to formulate new ways of communicating them in light of the current Postmodern situation.

If Michael S. Horton and his colleagues produce more volumes such as this, I hope they will offer more solutions instead of merely diagnosing the problem of postmodernity. That said, this volume is a worthy contribution to the current Postmodern situation presented from a Reformed perspective.

Rating:
Summary: How are we responding to the crisis of truth?
Review: Let the dialogue begin -- in earnest! This new volume, the first in a series of projected volumes, begins the orthodox response to the various "postmodernisms" that are impacting the church and and world today. (For more background, see our Quicktime Video "Conversation" with Mike Horton @ the antithesis.com web site). This is no "knee-jerk" reponse... the contributors (including a leading representative of "the opposition") are serious about providing adequate answers to the excellent questions/issues/problems raised by Postmodern thinking (in all of its various forms).

In a world in which absolute truth, values and authority have lost their place, the evangelical church should be a beacon of truth and light. But the relativistic mindset of our culture has seeped even into our midst. Churches that once held firmly to the orthodox doctrines of the Bible have begun to waver as theology gives way to experience.

This book is the combined work of Christian scholars from Lutheran, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Baptist and other backgrounds and is meant to provide ideas and strategies for relating orthodoxy to the challenges and opportunities of a postmodern world. It is a call to the evangelical church to hold firm in matters of theology while at the same time reaching out to a world that needs the life-changing message of the Gospel. There is a crisis of truth in the church, and this volume challenges us all to respond.

Contributors: Charles Arand, Albert Mohler, Richard Gaffin, Richard Muller, D.G. Hart, J.A.O. Preus III, Richard Lints, Paul Raabe, Edgar McKnight, David Scaer, Benjamin Mitchell, Paul Zahl, and Michael Horton (Editor).

About the Editor: Michael Horton, Ph.D., is the highly awarded author/editor of ten books and the Vice-Chairman of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. He also co-pastors a church and is an associate professor of historical theology at Westminster Theology Seminary.

Rating:
Summary: Engages the Subject, but with Too Few Answers
Review: The challenge is real, so say these Baptist, Epicsopalian, Lutheran and Reformed writers, to the challenges facing the church of today.

Rising to this challenge first of all means understanding and defining the issues and challenges. Here they do an admirable job, providing historical background and some contemporary assessment. However, what I continually see the work falling short on is where to go from here. This is so typical of our time, seeing the yeast multiplying and taking over more and more of the dough, however little suggestion of how to isolate, surgically remove, etc.

In a church environmnet that is all the things shown in this fine collection (individualistic, pluralistic, relativistic, postmodern, etc.), there will have to be concord in some confession of theology, not in more respected academia or focused seminaries.

Churches and their confessional bodies are where the trenches are where the spiritual wars are being lost and won. Many of those who see themselves as generals and strategists don't know exactly the daily pressures the trench fighters go through, nor provide even recognition of what resources and assistance they can provide. The dumbing down of the faith is rolling. To just acknowledge pros and cons on all sides, and then leave it there is tragedy.

This book leaves it there. Well done, but tragic in its void of what will aid the church.