Comments on: Representative Evangelical Theologians: Clark Pinnock https://oxgoad.ca/2019/12/10/representative-evangelical-theologians-clark-pinnock/ fundamentalism by blunt instrument Tue, 17 Dec 2019 18:10:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brian E Ernsberger https://oxgoad.ca/2019/12/10/representative-evangelical-theologians-clark-pinnock/comment-page-1/#comment-116637 Tue, 17 Dec 2019 18:10:30 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/?p=2462#comment-116637 In reply to ox.

I completely agree with your assessment of Olson. It is a bit remarkable that he does perceive these things yet remains unwilling to acknowledge is own precarious position.

]]> By: ox https://oxgoad.ca/2019/12/10/representative-evangelical-theologians-clark-pinnock/comment-page-1/#comment-116632 Sun, 15 Dec 2019 07:05:09 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/?p=2462#comment-116632 In reply to Brian E Ernsberger.

Hi Brian
For some reason this comment got stuck in gmail’s spam folder. Sorry for the delay.

I agree, the things Olson describes are things that seem to appeal to many young men. They simply don’t see where the compromise will take them. Olson is no conservative, he gets things wrong, but he is still perceptive and sees things that many erstwhile fundamentalists (they say they are, anyway) either completely miss or deliberately ignore.

Maranatha!
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3

]]> By: Brian E Ernsberger https://oxgoad.ca/2019/12/10/representative-evangelical-theologians-clark-pinnock/comment-page-1/#comment-116625 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 02:49:37 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/?p=2462#comment-116625 Don,
I haven’t read all the articles you’ve done on Olson’s book, but I did this last one. I find it troubling that these characteristics that Olson/Pinnock note about post conservative evangelicalism view of theology to be infiltrating the younger, so-called fundamentalists. They tend to also have a willingness to “They think of theology as a journey or a pilgrimage and of theologians as pioneers rather than guardians or gatekeepers,” as Pinnock declares. But then the younger crowd has typically held a more open view to evangelicalism than the older generations, so it comes as no surprise that these characteristics would slip into the fundamentalist’s ranks.

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