An evangelical theologian has explained the meaning of “postconservative evangelical,” noting that the task of aligning doctrine with Scripture remains unfinished and “biblical inerrancy” is not elevated to dogma-status.
“Not many theologians I know want this label slapped on them,” Roger E. Olson, professor of Christian Theology of Ethics at George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, admitted in a blog on Monday.
“Postconservative evangelical theology is evangelical theology that does not consider the constructive task of theology finished. Conservative evangelical theology is evangelical theology that considers the constructive task of theology finished. These theologians are primarily interested in the critical task of theology — discovering heresy and exposing it. They are also interested, of course, in translating older versions of ‘the received evangelical tradition’ into contemporary idiom,” he goes on to explain.
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