THE MAKING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
By Arthur G. Patzia
IVP. 302 pages. £14.99
ISBN 978 1 844 745 128
A couple of decades ago, James Barr, former evangelical and arch-critic of what he called ‘fundamentalism’, observed that, when he attended biblical studies conferences, the methodology of ‘evangelicals’ was indistinguishable from that of others. He invited them to come clean and recognise that their approach was unaffected by their confessional stance.
Put another way, many who claim to be evangelicals undertake their disciplinary work by ‘bracketing out’ any theological commitments.
