Christianity is reason-able

The agnosticism of liberal theology appears to be giving way to the return of religion to political and public influence.

The ‘evangelicalism’ of militant atheism – like that of the atheist fundamentalist, Richard Dawkins – appears to be having a positive effect on the Christian faith after all. There has been a divide between orthodoxy and liberalism for centuries but Liberal Theology is losing its suffocating grip and now appears to be influential only in departments of religious studies where liberal hardliners still dream their romantic dreams.

Militant atheism, and the gradual drift of secular liberal democracy away from its founding values in Christianity, have exposed the toothlessness of liberal Christianity which embraced whatever cultural norms grabbed their fancy. A robust theological response to secular modernity is emerging.

Postmodernism finally became disillusioned with Enlightenment reason. Secularism became so fragmented that it is losing its grip on the hearts and minds of the masses. They do not know what to believe any more.

Many are beginning to recognise that Christian theology is not as superstitious or irrational as what the atheist fundamentalists want us to believe.

Augustine appears to be a hit again. Reformed Orthodox theologians like John Calvin had great respect for him. But in more recent years theologians like Henri de Lubac, John Milbank and the current Pope, Joseph Ratzinger, in fellowship with Augustine, all embarked on a renewed quest for the truth, which is not only based on faith but also engage with Christian reason, which, in turn, engages the human intellect.