to the new intellectual environment, combined with the fact that Wesley did seem easily to appropriate
the emerging biblical scholarship of his day, are grounds for suggesting that the Wesleyan tradition is more appropriately viewed as non-fundamentalist, even among those who wish to live in more direct continuity with the spiritual dynamic of the founder.
It has
emerged in part as a way for the guild of
biblical scholarship to respond to a number of stimuli: (1) the increasing charges by many theologians, lay and professional, that
biblical criticism has...