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The Christian Witness in a Secular Age: An Evaluation of Nine Contemporary Theologians is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume presents an evangelical appraisal of modern theological thinking. It examines the views of nine leading theologians on the apologetic task today, from Karl Barth and Reinhold Niebuhr, to Harvey Cox and Thomas Altizer. The strengths and weaknesses in the theology of each are set forth. Donald G. Bloesch contends that modern apologetics is often anchored in the spirit of the age and the...

is made not on the basis of whether men have faith but on whether they have social concern. Concurrent with the secularization of theology is the secularization of morality. Absolute moral standards are now rejected in most theological circles. In place of an ethics oriented about the law and the Gospel we find situational and contextual ethics. The “new morality” upheld by Robinson, Cox, Fletcher, and others makes love the final criterion for action, but their description of love is not really related
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