ABSTRACT
Yet the presumption persists that Paul Holmer is one of the sources of what is frequently called "Yale fideism”. Religion and Christianity very clearly seek to make men true subjects. Religious truth is not connotative—it is denotative, indicating always that that quality which men can aspire to, for objective truths about that quality are not that quality. Some might think Holmer has used powerful philosophical therapies to underwrite a kind of confessionalism. He often seems to presume that there is agreement among Christians concerning the "what”. One might expect that Holmer would therefore take a quite critical perspective on most forms of Protestant liberal theology. Yet he has charitable things to say, for instance, about Rudolf Bultmann. He notes that in one place Bultmann seems to be saying that the language of the Bible is not the language of science—which is surely a good thing to say.
