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Faith, Form, and Fashion: Classical Reformed Theology and Its Postmodern Critics, written by Paul Helm

Faith, Form, and Fashion: Classical Reformed Theology and Its Postmodern Critics, written by Paul... Paul Helm, Faith, Form, and Fashion: Classical Reformed Theology and Its Postmodern Critics (Cambridge: James Clarke & Co, 2014), x + 278 p., £ 24.00, ISBN 9780227174920.Paul Helm is recognized as a leading philosophical exponent of what he describes as Classical Reformed Theology (CRT). In this volume he provides both a positive articulation of some of what he takes to be the essential features and intellectual structures of CRT as well as a critique of several scholars who identify themselves as working from the Reformed tradition but whose work is at odds with Helm’s conception of CRT. His attention is particularly focused on two American theologians, Kevin Vanhoozer and John R. Franke, whom he identifies as being “among the ablest and certainly the most prolific writers on theological method from the confessional Reformed stable” (4). His principle concern, in addition to their deviation from the frameworks of CRT, is the degree to which they have incorporated “a good deal of the postmodern attitude to metaphysics and epistemology” (4). This shared embrace of postmodern sensibilities means for Helm that Vanhoozer and Franke “exemplify, in an overlapping way, the effect of the postmodern attitude on Christianity” (5). The problem he identifies in both http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Reformed Theology Brill

Faith, Form, and Fashion: Classical Reformed Theology and Its Postmodern Critics, written by Paul Helm

Journal of Reformed Theology , Volume 11 (3): 2 – Jan 1, 2017

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1872-5163
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1569-7312
DOI
10.1163/15697312-01103008
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Paul Helm, Faith, Form, and Fashion: Classical Reformed Theology and Its Postmodern Critics (Cambridge: James Clarke & Co, 2014), x + 278 p., £ 24.00, ISBN 9780227174920.Paul Helm is recognized as a leading philosophical exponent of what he describes as Classical Reformed Theology (CRT). In this volume he provides both a positive articulation of some of what he takes to be the essential features and intellectual structures of CRT as well as a critique of several scholars who identify themselves as working from the Reformed tradition but whose work is at odds with Helm’s conception of CRT. His attention is particularly focused on two American theologians, Kevin Vanhoozer and John R. Franke, whom he identifies as being “among the ablest and certainly the most prolific writers on theological method from the confessional Reformed stable” (4). His principle concern, in addition to their deviation from the frameworks of CRT, is the degree to which they have incorporated “a good deal of the postmodern attitude to metaphysics and epistemology” (4). This shared embrace of postmodern sensibilities means for Helm that Vanhoozer and Franke “exemplify, in an overlapping way, the effect of the postmodern attitude on Christianity” (5). The problem he identifies in both

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Published: Jan 1, 2017

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