Wed 3 Dec 2008
William C. Placher (1948-2008)
Posted by josh under Blog
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I just heard the sad news that one of my favorite postliberal theologians passed away this weekend. Ben has some of the significant links about William Placher.
Two of his books in particular have really influenced my thinking: Unapologetic Theology and Struggling with Scripture. Here’s a good article by Placher entitled, Is the Bible True?
December 4th, 2008 at 9:42 am
I was deeply saddened too. He was a brilliant theologian.
In addition to the books you listed, Essentials of Christian Theology is an excellent example of dialogical theology.
His historical theology was also beautiful.
February 7th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
“Perhaps we’ll learn that there are more things to admire in men than to despise; perhaps, knowing it will never be enough to change the world, we will act more honorably than we expected we would; perhaps we’ll have a lot of fun along the way. It wouldn’t be a bad life.” Dr. William C. Placher