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Debates have been centered on issues of incommensurability, sectarianism, fideism, relativism, truth and ontological reference.

A number of works have sought to resolve these questions to various degrees of satisfaction ( e. g. Pecknold 2005, Vanhoozer 2005, De Hart 2006 ), and the debates continue across the theological disciplines.

Furthermore, critics have maintained that the internal coherence model postliberal theologians assume is difficult to square with developments in modern science which would seem to challenge the tenets of traditional, orthodox Christianity ( e. g. the new physics, or evolution ), yet such criticisms neglect the ways in which the postliberal view of doctrines as depth-grammars ( inscribing the rules of the faith articulated at Nicea and Chalcedon ) provide dynamic ways of relating the truths of faith to truths of scientific discovery.

Likewise, Bruce Marshall and others have developed postliberal approaches to truth that resemble the " moderate realism " of the medieval correspondence theory of truth ( e. g. Thomas Aquinas ).