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And recognizing such a continuity may require that we jettison some of our own modern presuppositions. Our Christian faith—and correlatively, our account of apologetics—is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reas

The problem is that we have gotten into the business of doing His business our way, not being “people of the Way” (see Acts 9:2).…

I will argue that the postmodern church could do nothing better than be ancient, that the most powerful way to reach a postmodern world is by recovering tradition, and that the most effective means of discipleship is found in liturgy.

First of all, it is important to understand the relationship between general, universal theological truths and context-specific theological truths. Context-specific theological truths are based on the general, universal theological truths, yet are more narrowly focused into a specific setting. That is, undergirding the specific theological truths t

suffering.”22The church doesn’t have an

we experience this more as a discovery we already believe and are content to live in a faith in God rather than something we must continually “stoke up” or decide to do. But this also is faith.

special “revelations” aside, theology should be derived from common Christian experience.

The passage played a pivotal role in the development of the historic church creeds, which show that:

The intellectual underpinnings of Bonhoeffer’s convictions on life in a Christian faith community can be traced to his early works Sanctorum Communio and Act and Being, which undergirded his interpretation of the church as a primary form of God’s self-revelation.