Part One
INTRODUCTION: 5 CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker
INTRODUCTION: 5 CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker
To analyze the
modern scene in depth would require many volumes, and the student will find
that many volumes have been written on this subject. In the limited space of
this chapter only the most limited treatment can be given, with the purpose
simply to acquaint the student with some of the major trends away from orthodox
theology. One hears of many approaches to the Bible: Historicism, Literary
Analysis, Form Criticism, Historical Relativism, etc., etc. Numerous labels
have been given to systems of modern theology: Modernism, Liberalism, Neo-orthodoxy,
Neo-liberalism, Bultmannism, Crisis Theology, Barthianism, Neoevangelicalism, Conservatism,
Fundamentalism, etc. To gain an understanding of the ferment that is going on
in the theological world one must be familiar with the teachings of such men as
Friedrich Schleiermacher, Soren Kierkegaard, Immanuel Kant, Adolph Harnack,
Ernst Troeltsch, Albert Schweitzer, Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, Martin Heidegger,
Rudolf Bultmann, Harvey Cox, Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, and a host of
others, all of whom are outside the conservative camp.
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