This article has two particular purposes, one of which is to provide the information that will lead to an understanding of postmodern theology threatening the scriptural integrity of churches of Christ. The second raises the question of why our university Bible scholars do not definitively inform the churches at the grass roots level on the issues. Be assured your children are in their classrooms. Names, titles, and labels mean nothing unless defined and explained in context such as modernism , and postmodernism , and conservatism , and liberalism .
Words take on symbolic significance when contextualized in religion or in a societal setting.
There are no rules of language, logic, or anything else that make religion exempt from these influences. Modernism is not a word of recent coinage. And its opposite label, liberalism , in modern theology does not accept the historical reality of such events as the virgin birth and the bodily resurrection of Jesus. Neo-orthodoxy had become by the late 1950s a fully developed systematic theology identified with the names of Karl Barth, Rudolph Bultmann, and Paul Tillich. Harry Emerson Fosdick was the first bulldog of Neo-liberalism .