Despite the mouthing of traditional formulas, when these positions are given
full theological explication, they will be found to express a fundamentally different view of the Bible — fully consistent with the radical party of evangelical feminists but irreconcilable with Lindsell's
understanding.
While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an
understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement with the
full range of cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for
theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.