Not so very long ago, liberal Protestantism -- liberal both theologically and politically -- represented the mainstream. At the risk of simplification, Protestant theological liberalism has sought, ...

In his recent book, The Recovery of the Person (Abingdon, 1963), Carlyle Marney searches for an “incarnational realism” that would express the urgent need for inter-personal relationships leading to ...

Carl Schmitt, anti-Semitism, and liberal democracy. As Carl Schmitt’s intellectual reputation continues to rise in scholarly circles, so does the critical heat surrounding his anti-Semitism. The more ...

Mordecai Menahem Kaplan was the rabbi of a Manhattan congregation at 22, but he was torn between his own theological liberalism and the unbending Orthodox Judaism he preached. “I worked hard,” he said ...

Hardly since The Hunting of the Snark had there been such a quest. But by last week the University of Chicago’s Federated Theological Faculty had found and installed its first permanent dean and was ...

At this year’s SBC, not a single candidate or leader questioned conservative orthodoxy. Instead, outgoing president J.D. Greear praised the previous generation for their victory over theological ...

Rick Warren, founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Orange County, makes an appeal at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday to reinstate his church. The convention expelled ...

At their annual meeting in New Orleans this week, Southern Baptists doubled down on their crusade against female clergy. “Messengers” (delegates) of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination ...