D.A. Carson on Liberal Theology

And now at the beginning of the twenty-first century, classic liberal theology looks more and more outmoded. It still embraces more than its share of scholars, of course, but its denominations are shrinking, its influence in the culture is declining, and its more extreme and vociferous proponents - The Jesus Seminar, for instance - simply look silly. Worldwide, people in the "liberal Christian" heritage make up only a tiny percentage of those who call themselves "Christians". Apparently, then, liberal Christianity and Gnostic Christianity have this in common: for a while, both seemed to sweep everything in front of them, such that if orthodoxy is measured by poularity rather than by some mueasure of commitment to conform to God's self-disclosure in Scripture and in his Son, they constituted the new orthodoxy. And both will be left on the ash pit of history.

He goes on to write this a few paragraphs later:

At the moment, it is worth reflecting on the fact that in the United States there are now more M.Div. students in seminaries belonging to some branch or other of the evangelical tradition than in all other seminaries combined, and that the best of the confessional seminaries are as academically tough as anything put forward by traditional liberal seminaries and theological faculties.

- D.A. Carson, Christ and Culture Revisited, pages 34 and 35