Gerald Bray: Quote of the Day: Evangelical Scholarship

This is a movement within the Protestant churches whose adherents have rejected the critical assumptions of Enlightenment thought to a greater or lesser degree. They seek to maintain the theology of the Reformation, though in practice this has frequently been modified. . . . Conservative evangelicals tend to regard the first world of discourse ["academic scholarship" above] as their mission field, and are ambivalent toward the second one ["social trends" above]. They frequently sympathize with the cause of fighting injustice, but doubt whether the way it is defined, or the methods adopted to combat it, are really consonant with scholarly standards or traditional theological positions.3

Quoted from a secondary source:  ETA LINNEMANN FRIEND OR FOE OF SCHOLARSHIP?  by Robert W. Yarbrough.  The primary source is cited as 3. Gerald Bray, Biblical Interpretation Past and Present (Downers Grove, Ill./Leicester, England:  InterVarsity, 1996), p. 539.

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