In honor of his 80th birthday, Christianity Today reprints a fascinating interview with Thomas Oden, a formerly liberal theologian who discovered the church fathers and who now has been advocating a historically orthodox Christianity in all of the theological traditions. In the interview, he tells about how he abandoned liberalism–largely because of the liberal stand on abortion–how reading Luther helped cure him of radicalism, why we need creeds and church history in addition to the Bible, how evangelicals need to discover the sacraments, and the impact of modernity and postmodernity. At one point, he calls himself an “ancient evangelical,” which is another interesting term. The interview defies excerpting, so read it here: Back to the Fathers | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction.
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