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Interesting examples of conservatives
include Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology, 3 Volumes (New York:
Scribner's Sons, 1891); Donald G. Bloesch, Holy Scripture: Revelation,
Inspiration and Interpretation (Downers' Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1994);
and Millard Erickson, Christian Theology (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1983). Liberals
include <!g>Rudolf Bultmann, Theology of the New Testament: Complete in One
Volume, trans. Kendrick Grobel (New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951/1955); Rudolf Bultmann, Jesus Christ and
Mythology (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958), esp. Ch. V; Gordon D.
Kaufman, Systematic Theology: A Historicist Perspective (New York:
Scribner's Sons, 1978); Gordon D. Kaufman, "On the Meaning of 'Act of
God'," in God's Activity in the World: The Contemporary Problem,
ed. Owen Thomas, Studies in Religion Series/American Academy of Religion, No.
31 (Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1983), 137-62; Maurice Wiles,
"Religious Authority and Divine Action," in God's Activity in the
World: The Contemporary Problem, ed. Owen Thomas, Studies in Religion
Series/American Academy of Religion, No. 31 (Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press,
1983), 181-94; Maurice Wiles, God's Action in the World: The Bampton
Lectures for 1986 (SCM Press, 1986).
See Murphy, Beyond liberalism and fundamentalism. for details. Philosophical systems, such as <!g>Kants, and
theological systems, such as <!g>Schleiermachers, were pivotal to the liberal
approach; in both cases, religion is restricted to a separate domain from
nature, the realm of moral order or inward piety, respectively. It is a
"two worlds" view of this sort and its 20th century legacy that scholars
in theology and science are now trying to overcome.
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