Reclaiming the Center

Reclaiming the Center: Confronting Evangelical Accommodation in Postmodern Times
Millard J. Erickson (Editor), Paul Kjoss Helseth (Editor), Justin Taylor (Editor), D. A. Carson, Douglas Groothuis, J. P. Moreland, Garrett DeWeese, R. Scott Smith, A. B. Caneday, Stephen J. Wellum, Kwabena Donkor, William G. Travis, Chad Owen Brand, James Parker III

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Reclaiming the Center is a valuable contribution to the study of contemporary evangelicalism. It is a guide for how evangelicals can move forward with wisdom and discernment without succumbing to the spirit of this age.

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Contents

List of Contributors 11
Acknowledgments 13
Part 1. Introduction
1. An Introduction to Postconservative Evangelicalism and the Rest of This Book
Justin Taylor 		17
2. Domesticating the Gospel: A Review of Grenz's Renewing the Center
D. A. Carson 		33
Part 2. Truth, Foundationalism, and Language
3. Truth Defined and Defended
Douglas Groothuis 		59
4. The Premature Report of Foundationalism's Demise
J. P. Moreland and Garrett DeWeese 		81
5. Language, Theological Knowledge, and the Postmodern Paradigm
R. Scott Smith 		109
Part 3. Theological Method
6. Is Theological Truth Functional or Propositional? Postconservatism's Use of Language Games and Speech-Act Theory
A. B. Caneday 		137
7. Postconservatism, Biblical Authority, and Recent Proposals for Re-Doing Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis
Stephen J. Wellum 		161
8. Postconservatism: A Third World Perspective
Kwabena Donkor 		199
Part 4. Evangelical Historiography
9. Are Postconservative Evangelicals Fundamentalists? Postconservative Evangelicalism, Old Princeton, and the Rise of Neo-Fundamentalism
Paul Kjoss Helseth 		223
10. Pietism and the History of American Evangelicalism
William G. Travis 		251
11. Defining Evangelicalism
Chad Owen Brand 		281
Part 5. Post-Postmodernism
12. A Requiem for Postmodernism--Whither Now?
James Parker III 		307
13. On Flying in Theological Fog
Millard J. Erickson 		323
Scripture Index 351
Person Index 353
Subject Index 361

About the Contributors

Millard J. Erickson is Distinguished Professor of Theology at Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. He is a leading evangelical spokesman with numerous highly regarded volumes to his credit, including the classic text Christian Theology.

Paul Kjoss Helseth is Associate Professor of Christian Thought at Northwestern College in St. Paul, Minnesota and the author of numerous scholarly articles.

Justin Taylor is Study Bible project director and associate publisher at Crossway. He has edited and contributed to several books, including A God-Entranced Vision of All Things and Reclaiming the Center. He runs the website www.johnowen.org.