‘What is Progressive Theology?’ (2022).

Many Christians have felt like deer in the headlights as the four-wheel, off-road, hunter’s vehicle of Progressivism has suddenly appeared over the hill.  Some have melted in place, believing all the accusations against them.  Others have joined the hunt, as though they had no ‘deer-identity’ of their own.  And others have darted this way and that into the shadows, without direction, fearful, and hoping only to survive.

This book, while by no means comprehensive, seeks to provide some better understanding of what this Progressivism is and how it is infecting the Church and its mission.  We need to reach deep into the bedrock of our Christian civilization in the Church and respond to this Progressivism with what is good and lasting in our faith.  The charge of racism in every institution must be met with the Bible’s theology of mission and the long history of the Church’s mission in the world.  Post-Christian sexuality is not an issue of justice but of perversion–a perversion of God’s good creation, and Progressivism needs to be challenged not with dialogue and shared experiences but with the truth of the Divine Word and the historic teaching of the Church, including the Good News that, in Christ, sin is forgiven and sinners are transformed.  Christians need to affirm the convictions of Christian orthodoxy established in the time of the Church Fathers, affirm the convictions of the Reformation (sola Scriptura, sola fide, sola gratia, solo Christo, soli Deo gloria), affirm Evangelicals’ focus of belief on Scripture as God’s Word, Christ, and conversion, and our focus of activism in light of these, and conserve our identity over against today’s post-Christian Progressivism.