Most Sobering: Pete Enns with «If They Only Knew What I Thought: The Sad Cycle of
Evangelical Biblical Scholarship»
Not exact matches
A truly ecclesial
biblical scholarship supports the Church's
evangelical mission by giving new power to Catholic preaching, Catholic catechesis, and Catholic evangelism.
For many years, I felt that part of my call as a writer and blogger of faith was to be a different sort of
evangelical, to advocate for things like gender equality, respect for LGBT people, and acceptance of science and
biblical scholarship within my community.
I recently read a book called God's Word in Human Words by Kenton Sparks, which is purportedly an
evangelical defense of critical
biblical scholarship.
The ranks of the secularists and the
evangelicals, both of whom ignore
biblical scholarship for opposite reasons, are growing.
While there are excellent and well - stated «conservative positions» with regard to certain
biblical issues, there is, no such thing as an «
evangelical body of
scholarship» which constitutes anything like a rival «school» to mainstream
scholarship.