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Scholarship and Christian Faith

Douglas Jacobsen Β· 2004
78/100
πŸ‘ Worth It

Jacobsen and Jacobsen do something genuinely valuable here: they show that the Reformed integration model that has dominated Christian scholarship isn't the only legitimate approach, and they do it with Oxford University Press rigor and a dialogical structure that models the very openness they're arguing for. The audience is narrow β€” this is a book for faculty at Christian colleges, not general readers β€” but within that audience it's among the more honest and constructive contributions to the conversation.

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