Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

An introduction to postconservative evangelicalism and the rest of this book / Justin Taylor -- Domesticating the gospel : a review of Grenz's Renewing the center / D.A. Carson -- Truth defined and defended / Douglas Groothuis -- The premature report of foundationalism's demise / J.P. Moreland and Garrett DeWeese -- Language, theological knowledge, and the postmodern paradigm / R. Scott Smith -- Is theological truth functional or propositional? : postconservatism's use of language games and speech-act theory / A.B. Caneday -- Potconservatism, biblical authority, and recent proposals for re-doing evangelical theology : a critical analysis / Stephen J. Wellum -- Postconservatism : a Third World perspective / Kwabena Donkor -- Are postconservative evangelicals fundamentalists? : postconservative evangelicalism, old Princeton, and the rise of neo-fundamentalism / Paul Kjoss Helseth -- Pietism and the history of American evangelicalism / William G. Travis -- Defining evangelicalism / Chad Owen Brand -- A requiem for postmodernism--whither now? / James Parker III -- On flying in theological fog / Millard J. Erickson.

This is a collection of intelligent, provocative, gutsy essays that dare to fly into the eye of the scholarly storm over evangelical identity. Though different perspectives are presented, the underlying thesis is clear and worth heeding: the eager, and sometimes uncritical, embrace of postmodernist paradigms may be as premature as it has proven to be unproductive for the well-being of the evangelical church.