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Stan Moody: In a 1968 article in Christianity Today , Carl Henry noted that neo-Protestant religious theory had collapsed for the 3 rd  time in the 20 th  Century. 1  Classic Modernism, the theology of divine immanence, gave way to Barth’s neo-orthodoxy about 1930. Neo-orthodoxy, the theology of divine transcendence, gave way to existentialism about 1950. Existentialism, the theology subjectivity (“do something; anything”), died about 1960.  In asking where modern theology was going, Henry...

Stan Moody: I turn with a heavy heart to the task at hand – consideration of the thoughts of one more theologian; one more set of parameters of the Christian faith; one more escape from the simplicity and piercing relevance of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God inaugurated by Jesus and abandoned by His Church in pursuit of its own popularity. Through the noble self-sacrifices of Bonhoeffer in the context of the current evangelical departure from the Christian faith in America, I fear we have...

Stan Moody: You may be wondering why the blog is a little late these past weeks. I had a seizure at home and went to the ER by ambulance. They did a CT scan and discovered that I had a brain tumor. I was rushed to Portland and told that I had to have brain surgery last Monday. The surgery went well. The neurosurgeon said that type of tumor couldn’t be identified by sight. There are two possibilities: it could be an infection, hence, curable with IV antibiotics at home for a month; it could be...