Honors
TIME Magazine in 2001 named him "America's Best Theologian". He responded by saying, "'Best' is not a theological category."
Also in 2001, he was invited to give the Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews in Scotland, which were published as With the Grain of the Universe, a text in which Karl Barth's interpretation of St. Anselm's analogy of faith featured. In 1997 he gave the Scottish Journal of Theology lectures at Aberdeen, published as Sanctify Them in Truth (1998).
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