The longing for a tradition that will make sense out of our evangelical tower of Babel, the recoil from self - serving exegesis, and the dissatisfaction with the miserable and stultifying parochialism of much evangelicalism are entirely understandable. (religion-online.org)
The first is a debilitating form of parochialism in which parties fails to see the value in learning the ways of the «other». (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)