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No Easy Task: More of Paul Helm on John Franke |
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Monday, 07 May 2007 |
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No Easy Task: John Franke and the Character of Theology by Paul Helm A draft of a paper forthcoming in Post-Conservative Evangelicals: An Analysis and Critique, ed. Ron Gleason and Gary Johnson, (Crossway). Systematic Theology 'is no easy task' - Charles Hodge The Christian world is presently being offered a number of 'post-conservative', 'post-evangelical', and 'emerging' theologies, or ways of doing theology. This chapter looks at one of these, John R. Franke's as we find it in his book The Character of Theology: A Postconservative Evangelical Approach, (Baker, 2005). I will argue that Franke has seriously miscalculated what is involved in relating Christian faith to its cultural context, for he has overestimated the ease with which a non-foundational Christian theology may be developed. By a happy irony, he has not succeeded in his project and (I shall imply) must fail to do so. What he offers remains a foundational theology. Nevertheless, it is a seriously deficient form of foundational theology. It is theologically unstable because it concedes too much to the culture and downplays the importance of truth. Theology is no easy task.
Read the entire essay at Paul's blog, Helm’s Deep
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No Easy Task: More of Paul Helm on John Franke's Theology 
