The Rev. Bryan Owen writes at Creedal Christian:
In the wake of Wolfhart Pannenberg‘s recent death, a clergy colleague shared a brief excerpt from the great theologian’s 1991 book An Introduction to Systematic Theology:
If theology does not properly face its particular task regarding the truth claims of the Christian tradition, then it easily happens that the clergy of the church are the first to become insecure and evasive about the message they are supposed to preach. When they become doubtful about the truth of the gospel, they will tend to replace it by other ‘causes,’ and the believers will be disturbed, because they no longer get to hear in church what they rightfully expect to be taught here.
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