I’ve been reading just about everything Paul Helm writes with great enthusiasm since I first encountered his The Varieties of Belief (1973) during my days as an undergraduate. Moreover, I almost always find myself agreeing with him, even when he…
In a recent comment Steve Bush takes issue with the accuracy of some of my review of John Franke’s The Character of Theology, which appears in Reformation21. I take up – I hope in the spirit of generous orthodoxy – his…
“Deciding whether postconservatism is a ‘movement’ or simply a ‘mood’ is rather unimportant for our purposes. What is important – and what is by and large no longer questioned – is that a significant shift is taking place in some…
John Franke, who teaches theology at Biblical Theological Seminary, has written this introduction to Christian theology. Its chapters are on “Doing Theology Today”, “The Subject of Theology,” “The Nature of Theology”, “The Task of Theology”, and “The Purpose of Theology”.…
One of the binding chapters of the Directory for Worship for my denomination instructs the minister presiding at the Lord’s Table to “invite all those who profess the true religion, and are communicants in good standing in any evangelical church.”…
The theologian is often caught between a rock and a hard place, between the truth he holds dear and the society he loves and longs to see transformed by the gospel. This tension, though never easy, is right and good.…
