Theology As History and Hermeneutics
This book is a post-critical evangelical conversation with  modern and postmodern thought. The basic premise of modern thought was that  knowledge is founded upon universal, autonomous, and rational principles of  critical thought. This premise is also known as modern foundationalism.  Post-modernism is a term to describe those who have lost confidence in this  modern premise. A related term to post-modernism is post-critical. I mean  by post-critical evangelicalism an adherence to the Trinitarian faith of  the Church without modern foundationalism and without the notion of  irrefutable orthodoxy, Some forms of post-modernism tend toward  irrationalism and appear to be like recalcitrant children of modernism  because they are more intent on deconstructing the idea of autonomous,  critical reason than in reconstructing a more modest claim to knowledge.  Post-critical is a term used to indicate an appreciation for critical  thinking, but post-critical thinking is more modest in its claims about  what it knows and recognizes that all knowing entails personal and  subjective aspects. The claim of modern, objectivist thinking to have  irrefutable truth independent of subjective and personal experience is no  longer considered viable.To be post-critical is to value a synthesis between subjective and  objective dimensions of reality without falling into Romantic subjectivism and Nietzschean nihilism on the one hand, or into the dualism of fact and  value in Enlightenment thought on the other hand. Post-critical evangelical  theology focuses on the narrative of history and hermeneutics as a means of  validating faith as opposed to the verification epistemology of modern  rational objectivism. The premodern world focused on ontology; the modern  world on epistemology; the postmodern world on hermeneutics. A  post-critical evangelical theological method seeks to embrace the best  insights of all three approaches and uses them as a basis of conversation  with contemporary theology.