The History of Christian Theology

Lecture 32: Protestantism after Modernity

with what scripture already means in the ongoing practices of prayer, liturgy,

and service, which the Christian tradition has maintained since antiquity.

This will require Protestants to take the ancient and contemporary Catholic

tradition seriously as a witness to the meaning of the word of Christ. These

are all questions on the agenda for ecumenical theologians in the mainline

churches and for evangelical theology as it becomes increasingly the

mainstream of Protestant theology in the United States. Ŷ

Caputo, Philosophy and Theology.

MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?

Williams, Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism.

1. Do you think traditions are opposed to critical, rational thought? Or are
   they the basis of critical, rational thought?


2. Should Christianity be modern, or can it be postmodern—or something
   else?

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