Tag: The Character of Theology

  • Biblical Authority in Emerging Christianity

    I have written several times about the foundationalist nature of theology and scripture in modernism. Liberal theology looks for a universal experience common to all humanity as its foundation for theology. The universal experience becomes the interpretative lens for doing theology and usually reduces scripture to a high expression of the universal experience, but it…

  • Book Discussion: The Character of Theology

    Book Discussion: The Character of Theology There will be a book discussion about The Charater of Theology: An Introduction to its Nature, Task, and Purpose, by John Franke, at the Generous Orthodoxy website starting on or about September 19. I just got the book yesterday and hope to join the conversation. I thought I would…