Mark Noll published The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind about 15 years ago. He concluded that the real scandal of the evangelical mind was that there wasn't much of one. People took notice because Noll is a highly-regarded evangelical himself.
It appears there wasn't much lasting effect from Noll's effort. Now, Peter Enns says it's not that evangelicalism doesn't want to have a mind. It surely does, and it also wants to value scholarship.
The problem is that this is only true provided that scholarship supports predetermined conclusions. As Enns puts it: "Sure, dig into evolution and the ancient context of Genesis, but by golly you’d better give me an Adam when you’re done."
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