I really know nothing about the theology of Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer-Prize winning Civil Rights activist and historian. But in his first volume of America in the King Years (Parting the Waters, p. 91) he gets right to the heart of the problem with liberal theology:
Most of the advanced schools of theology, feeling less adequate in a time of science’s empirical miracles and permanent, mathematical truths, protected themselves with scaled-down promises and vague imitations of the scientific method. . . .
Theology, which had once ruled all science as well as all being, was resorting to more and more elaborate shrugs.
