Contemporary Theology (1 of 3 notes)

Part One
INTRODUCTION: 5 CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

Hordern has described the contemporary theological scene in these words:

If an uninitiated layman or parish clergyman walked in on a modern theological discussion, he might believe that he had entered some ‘Alice in Wonderland’ territory. He would find theologians seriously asking if the ‘kerygmatic Christ’ (i.e., the Christ preached by the Church) is the same as the Jesus of history. He would hear some arguing that Christian faith has no interest in the historical Jesus. He would hear that faith can be neither helped nor hindered by knowledge of the historical Jesus.¹

And we might add, he would hear a host of other strange things, all the way from the demythologization of the Scriptures to Christian atheism and God is dead.

1             William Hordern, New Directions in Theology Today (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1966), I, p. 56.

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