Theology must always account for the one and the many. The Christian faith is the most rational thing to believe but Christians do not believe it primarily because it is so. The Christian must not integrate faith and life as much as refuse to disintegrate what God has already united. Scripture is the primary and unique authority for faith and life, i.e., sola Scriptura is still the formal principle of Protestantism. Scripture interprets Scripture, the new interprets the old, and the clear interprets the unclear.
Modernism is a competing sub-Christian religion.
Literal is not a synonym for true. Everything which one must believe for salvation is clearly revealed in Scripture. Orthodox, theologian, i.e., he was expressing Modernity in Christian terms, not Christianity in Modern terms. Inasmuch as it is a revealed religion Christianity is not susceptible of human revision or rescue. Progressive neo-evangelicals do not sufficiently value the orthodox Protestant tradition.