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Paul Helm  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Jul 2006
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INTRODUCING RADICAL ORTHODOXY
Mapping a Post-Secular Theology
by James K.A. Smith
Baker Academic & Paternoster
291 pages. £12.95
ISBN 1 84227 350 7

Evangelical Christians think (or should think) of theology as the activity of systematising the contours of the Christian faith as these are made known in Scripture, and in its historical development through the Christian centuries.

So theology is closely connected with the Bible, with the creeds and confessions, and with Church history. And with philosophy, since false teaching and opposition to the faith has often developed using the philosophical ideas and arguments of the day. These have in turn often been adopted and modified by the Church in its efforts to state the Christian faith in the face of that opposition. It’s not easy to keep these various influences in balance.

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