Christian task, however, is not to ensure that our doctrine of God is culturally compelling, but biblically faithful.
The historic claims of Christianity have grown increasingly unpopular up to the 20th Century . From Nietzsche and the “ death of God ” at the end of the 19th Century to the radical and revisionist theology of mainline Protestantism in the 20th Century, theologians are poised to practice theology without God in the 21st Century. Evangelicals fared better at the beginning of the 20th Century, fighting for biblical historic Christianity, but the last 50 years of the 20th Century found evangelicals debating essential issues of Classical Theism . Nearing the turn of the 21st Century, the biblical theological core of evangelicalism is being threatened by the various new “theisms” of evangelical revisionists. Today, the Doctrine of God is in crisis. In a postmodern culture, some see knowing God as oppressive, while others see knowing God as mere emotive sentiment. There is no “objective view of God,” only the creation of the image of God that works for each generation. Th