We set out to uncover the “defining moments” that gave birth to “modern” theology. Our efforts have not resulted in a comprehensive definition, but they were not intended to. This much can be said with all due tentativeness. First, “modern” theologians will share a commitment either to mediation or to speculation—if they do not tend simply to bracket off the problems created for Christian theology by the natural sciences altogether. “Mediation” as I have
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