"I think we are on the threshold of a whole new era in theology," says James McCord, Presbyterian president of Princeton Theological Seminary. He believes that the God-the-Father theology of the centuries after the Reformation, and the more recent God-the-Son theology of Karl Barth, Rudolph Bultmann and Paul Tillich are giving way in stress to the third person of the Trinity. The new emphasis, McCord suggests, will be on the Holy Spirit—"the God of the present."
The growing involvement of the churches in the secular world is the basic cause of this shift of theological sights to what is alternatively...
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