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Evangelical Theology in Germany

Germany theology since the Enlightenment has gained a reputation, not totally undeserved, for theological innovation more in keeping with modernity’s claims than the Scripture’s. Today a small but significant group of theologians and biblical scholars is defying that image. An informal survey documents a solid core of well-thought evangelical conviction among a number of published scholars in German-speaking Europe. Figures like K. Haacker in NT, G. Maier in hermeneutics, L. von Padberg in historical theology and epistemology, and E. Linnemann in Synoptic criticism are registering telling criticisms of reigning disciplinary orthodoxies. They are also mapping out better paths. Their work deserves careful attention from evangelicals grappling with analogous, and sometimes identical, issues in English-speaking contexts.