...Jensen particular, as consistently as it does the Bible and Jesus Christ himself.

Franklin accuses conservative Christians of eschewing historical and linguistic scholarship. But the approach to the Bible employed by evangelicals and taught at the theological college at which both Jensens trained and where Peter was Principal for sixteen years, is the literary-historical method. It uses the insights of history, archaeology, linguistics and literary studies to shed light on the text, especially in its original languages. Franklin might not like the resulting theology, but it cannot be for lack of scholarship.

He also alleges that Sydney evangelicals are preoccupied with doctrine to the exclusion of good deeds. However, even leaving aside individual acts of giving and compassion, one need only consider the outstanding and multi-faceted work of Sydney-based Anglicare and the three overseas aid programs over which Peter Jensen presides and to which Bible-believing...

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