Category Archives: 20th Century Theology
Augustus H. Strong and the Dilemma of Historical Consciousness
Grant Wacker writes this little book on A. H. Strong not so much as a biography in the traditional sense, but as an intellectual biography. He traces the inclinations of Strong from the standpoint of Strong’s progressive tendencies which he … Continue reading
Book Review: Avery Dulles, S.J., Models of Revelation
Avery Dulles, S. J., Models of Revelation (Garden City, New York: Image Books, 1985). Avery Dulles’ work on revelation exists as a sort of companion volume to his Models of the Church which I believe was published about five years … Continue reading
Isaac Massey Haldeman: Religous Imagination – Theology
Religious Imagination Perhaps more attached to his fidelity and fueling his fighting and finishing, Haldeman’s religious imagination is of singular importance. A lifetime of sermons, books, pamphlets, and even architecture bespeak of a man who had more on his mind … Continue reading
Isaac Massey Haldeman: Part 4 – Engaged in the “Battle Royal”
By the time Haldeman’s ministry had surged into the “roaring twenties,” Haldeman could boast of two other accomplishments. The first was a unanimous call to the prestigious Clarendon Street Baptist Church sometime after the death of A. J. Gordon. A … Continue reading
. . . not even up to the level of fundamentalists?
Dietrich Bonhoeffer apparently had this to say about his fellow students at Union Seminary in New York: [The Union students] become intoxicated with liberal and humanistic phrases, laugh at the fundamentalists, and yet basically are not even up to their … Continue reading

