includes bibliographical references and index

Evangelical hostility towards academic theology -- 1. The fundamentalist legacy -- 2. The dominance of pragmatism in evangelicalism -- 3. The secularism of the academy -- 4. The elitism of academic theology -- The past defensiveness of evangelicalism - a working definition of evangelicalism - the purpose and structure of this book -- I. The uniqueness of Jesus Christ -- The authority of Jesus Christ - Modernism and mastery - The significance of Jesus Christ -- 1. The revelational significance of Jesus Christ -- 2. The soteriological of Jesus Christ -- 3. The mimetic significance of Jesus Christ -- 4. The doxological significance of Jesus Christ -- 5. The kerygmatic significance of Jesus Christ -- 2. The authority of scripture -- 3. Evangelicalism and postliberalism -- 4. Evangelicalism and postmodernism -- 5. Evangelicalism and religious pluralism