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A few weeks ago the Scottish government released Al-Megrahi, the man convicted of bombing U.S.-bound Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. The past few weeks have been rough ones for the Scots. Angry Americans threatened to boycott Scottish products. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lined up to condemn the move. (I was [...]

These developments are also bringing about a crisis in theology. What … I call”type A” theologies, as well as those of”type B,” are unable to cope with the crisis. The former are too rigid, too tied to the past, too unwilling to see the new things God is doing. The latter are too rationalistic, too optimistic about the future, too oblivious to the power of evil. Both are too static, too A historical, to deal with the new world of the twenty-first century. In the midst of that crisis, the often forgotten third type of theology… has much to offer.