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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Evangelical Hostility Towards Academic Theology | |
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| The Fundamentalist Legacy | |
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| The Dominance of Pragmatism in Evangelicalism | |
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| The Secularism of the Academy | |
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| The Elitism of Academic Theology | |
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| The Past Defensiveness of Evangelicalism | |
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| A Working Definition of Evangelicalism | |
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| The Purpose and Structure of this Book | |
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| The Uniqueness of Jesus Christ | |
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| The Authority of Jesus Christ | |
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| Modernism and Mastery | |
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| The Significance of Jesus Christ | |
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| The Revelational Significance of Jesus Christ | |
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| The Soteriological Significance of Jesus Christ | |
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| The Mimetic Significance of Jesus Christ | |
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| The Doxological Significance of Jesus Christ | |
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| The Kerygmatic Significance of Jesus Christ | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Authority of Scripture | |
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| Scripture and Jesus Christ | |
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| The Autority of Scripture | |
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| The Liberating Dimension of Scriptural Authority | |
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| Rival Approaches to Authority | |
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| Culture | |
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| Experience | |
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| Reason | |
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| Tradition | |
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| Biblical Authority and Biblical Criticism | |
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| Biblical Authority and Personal Experience | |
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| The Relation Between Scripture and Systematic Theology | |
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| The Notion of "Biblical Theology" | |
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| Scripture and Narrative | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Evangelicalism and Postliberalism | |
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| The Reaction Against Liberalism | |
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| Defining Liberalism | |
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| Liberalism and the Quest for a "Public Theology" | |
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| The Postliberal Critique of Liberal Foundationalism | |
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| Rediscovering the Distinctiveness of Christianity | |
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| Lindbeck's Critique of Evangelicalism | |
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| Lindbeck's Cultural-Linguistic Approach | |
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| An Evangelical Critique of Postliberalism | |
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| What is Truth? | |
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| Why the Bible? | |
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| Why Jesus Christ? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Evangelicalism and Postmodernism | |
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| Defining the Enlightenment | |
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| The Influence of the Enlightenment on Evangelicalism | |
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| The Nature of Scripture | |
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| Spirituality | |
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| Apologetics | |
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| Evangelism | |
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| The Death of Modernity | |
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| Defining Postmodernism | |
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| The Vulnerability of Postmodernism | |
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| Foucault and Lyotard | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Evangelicalims and Religious Pluralism | |
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| The Nature of Pluralism | |
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| What Is Religion? | |
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| Dialogue and Mutual Respect | |
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| An Evangelical Approach to Religions and Salvation | |
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| The Christian Understanding of "God" | |
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| The Place of Jesus Christ in Salvation | |
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| The Nature of Salvation | |
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| Christian Salvation and the World Religions | |
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| Religious Stalinism? Pluralism and the Agenda of Modernity | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |