Monday, March 20, 2006

Can Believers Be Bible Scholars? A Strange Debate

http://www.christianpost.com/article/editorial/717/section/can.believers.be.bible.scholars.a.strange.debate/1.htm

[The Christian Post] March 20, 2006--Michael W. Fox doesn't believe that faith-based scholarship of the Bible is possible--and he wants to see such scholars marginalized in the larger world of scholarship. In an essay posted at the Web site for the Society of Biblical Literature [SBL], Fox argues, "In my view, faith-based study has no place in academic scholarship, whether the object of study is the Bible, the Book of Mormon, or Homer. Faith-based study is a different realm of intellectual activity that can dip into Bible scholarship for its own purposes, but cannot contribute to it."

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