I understand the importance that the modern church is placing upon the mystery of God and His truth. I realize that the church has fought so many battles on the island of...

Engaging Postmodernism (3): Changing the Horse

What are the options Christians are taking when it comes to engaging our postmodern culture? The question is: How do we lead a horse to water? The horse is the postmodern and...

Can the Christian faith violate reason?

I recieved this very good question from a student today and thought I would share: The Christian faith goes beyond reason but never contradictory to reason…or...

Googling for Truth: The Importance of Irenic Theology in our Postmodern World

Googling for truth can be a dangerous task. Who knows what one will find? How do you know who to trust? Before Google, before the Internet, before twenty-four-hour world news,...

Engaging Postmodernism (2): Denying the Horse is Postmodern

In yesterday’s blog, I presented my rendition of four ways that Christians are engaging postmoderns. The primary reference for this study is Millard Erickson’s...

Engaging Postmodernism: 4 Views

Millard Erickson has a book called Postmodernizing the Faith where he summarizes the different approaches that the Christian community is taking in response to the postmodern...

Doing missions in your own backyard (Cultural Prolegomena)

One of the difficulties in church ministries these days is understanding the dynamics and ethos of those in our culture today. We must ask and evaluate the thinking of those...

by C Michael Patton

Prolegomena

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Does good exegesis always produce good theology?

Coherence fallacy Thinking that having good exegesis automatically makes good theology Exegesis is a term used to describe the process of taking meaning “out of” the text....

by C Michael Patton

Prolegomena

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What is Theology?

For some, the word theology conjures up thoughts of ivory-tower academics, with those engaged in the discipline being riddled with speculation and impracticality. For others,...

by C Michael Patton

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