In a sense, I suppose this issue is comparable to the debates about evolution and religion that are going on among biologists about \u201caccomodationism,\u201d with some wanting to emphasize that there is no necessary incompatibility between science and faith, and others wanting complete separation. <\/p>\n
My own concern is that thinking critically is extremely challenging, and something that even the best of scholars sometimes fail to do. Is it not better to have critical scholarship interacting and connected with those whose scholarship is done in the framework of a religious tradition, rather than encouraging those for whom faith is important to isolate themselves from mainstream scholarship, as some are anyway inclined to do? Would the end result not be that we did harm to critical Biblical scholarship, precisely because we drove away those who would, over the course of wrestling with the topics and methods in the field, eventually have embraced a critical approach?<\/p>\n
What do other readers, and particularly those in some way connected with academic Biblical study, think about this topic?<\/p>\n
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