Requiem

Published by Abingdon Press in 1995, Requiem is, in its publisher's words, a post-liberal critique of the mainline liberal church establishment, especially the theological seminaries and church bureaucracies. Oden identifies what he sees as the failure of contemporary theological education and its accompanying ideology, maps the liberalisation of church bureaucracies and special-interest politics, and calls for a return to classical Christian theological roots. He writes as a former fellow traveller of the liberalism he criticises. Christianity Today's obituary names it as a source of his term "paleo-orthodoxy".