Reformed Theology in the Later Twentieth Century
This chapter discusses the wider context of Scottish theology during the period 1950–86, drawing special attention to the conflicted relations between Edinburgh and Glasgow theology. A recapitulation of the Barth–Bultmann debate here predominates, and to a great extent shapes the whole of the Scottish tradition in the period. The chapter maintains, however, that inordinate attention was given to the mediation of revelation in these theologies, and that insufficient consideration was given to the question as to the God who is thus mediated. An insight into the overall failure of Protestant theology in the later twentieth century thus emerges, and the chapter concludes that the Scottish theologian John McIntyre merits greater attention from academy and Church alike, as a thinker who recognized these theological limitations and sought to avoid them.