Is There a Future for God's Love? An Evangelical Theology
In Is There a Future for God's Love? Henry H. Knight III explains how evangelical theology’s historic commitment to revealed truth can still function in a world that is averse to truth claims and allergic to all forms of authority. Yet in addition to revealed truth, evangelicalism has always insisted on a direct, personal encounter with God in Christ and on personal involvement in God’s mission to redeem the world. How does evangelical Christianity’s understanding of a loving God life fit in a world suspicious of any claim to a normative encounter with the divine? How can one answer the call to love and serve in God's name when all such calls are viewed inherently intolerant? In this book Knight wrestles with these and other questions of how evangelical Christians can prayerfully discern while also contextualizing the gospel in order to live with faithful effectiveness while avoiding unfaithful compromise.
Is postmodernism right? Henry Knight says, "No," by interpreting evangelical theology’s insistence on religious experience and the transformed heart that is faithfully lived out in community.
Offers a "middle way" between religious tribalism and rejection of others on the one hand, and an "anything goes" account of pluralism on the other. Asserts a normative model of the Christian life that invites, rather than excludes. Asserts that evangelical theology can learn much about individualism vs. life in community from postmodern thinkers.
The reader will gain a deeper appreciation of evangelicalism's call to a distinctive Christian life, and how that call works in a postmodern context.
Product Details
- Title : Is There a Future for God's Love?: An Evangelical Theology
- Author: Knight, Henry H. III
- Publisher: Abingdon Press
- Publication Date: 2012
- ISBN: 9781426765414