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When I began working on The Blue Parakeet<\/em>, I had in mind a book that would show the extremes in evangelicalism on four or five topics and show how a third way, the way of moderation, is both more accurate and more peaceable. Well, that intent didn\u2019t happen because there was too much to be said about how we \u201capply\u201d the Bible. So, I\u2019m delighted that Roger Olson in his new book, Reformed and Always Reforming<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em>, does what I was thinking about and does it better.
\nBeginning in a little over a week I\u2019ll start blogging through Olson\u2019s Reformed and Always Reforming<\/em>. This book sketches the case for a postconservative evangelical theology and, at the same time, names names and assigns theologians to categories and boxes. Some may dispute their location on his map, but mapping is inevitable for all of us. Maybe an accurate map ends the needs for mapping \u2014 once we understand where we are maybe we don\u2019t need to talk about where we are. We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"