ABSTRACT
The philosopher, it might be said, is the guardian of grammar. The theologian is the guardian of the Faith. Paul Holmer in his book The Grammar of Faith spends most of his time discussing the sense in which a theologian is the guardian of the grammar of the Faith. The Grammar of Faith discloses that theology is not a succession of rival intellectual positions or new knowledge unavailable to the ordinary believer, but a way to organize and understand faith itself. Holmer describes the ordinary but important contexts in which he firmly believes that theology must do its work. Given this conviction, he is deeply alarmed at those theologians and other thinkers who say that this traditional task cannot be continued because it is outmoded. The diagnoses are rather vague and several; and the prognoses are equally disquieting. The themes that are struck are rather familiar in the long historical scene.
