Theology : Texts and Contexts : Preliminaries to prolegomena -- The Nature and purpose of a theological vision -- Philosophical assumptions -- The Face of Evangelicalism and the Task of Evangelical Theology : Defining Evangelicalism -- The Second Great Awakening and the Evangelical empires -- The Fundamentals and the war with modernism -- Social engagement and adaptation -- Identity and independence -- A Theological patchwork quilt. The Foundation of Theology : Epistmological grace -- The Use of the Bible in theology -- Stages of reorientation -- The Strange unity of two authors -- redemptive history and the progress of theology -- The Trajectory of Theology : The Use of tradition in theology : the distant past ; antitraditionalism ; antitraditional traditionalism : the Private Bible -- The parachurch church -- Temporal piety -- The mean between two extremes -- The use of culture in theology : the power and ambiguity of culture -- Modern culture -- Populist culture and popular dissent -- Theological respsonsibilities -- the use of Reason in theology : native and cultural rationality -- Irresistible beliefs -- Skepticisms and doubt -- Internal and external reason.