The response we received to J. Edward Barrett’s “Can Scholars Take the Virgin Birth Seriously?” BR 04:05, was unprecedented. In our February 1989 Readers Reply department we printed 26 readers’ letters out of the avalanche we received in response to this article. Almost all were critical. We wrote Dr. F. F. Bruce, the very distinguished British evangelical scholar who sits on BR’s Editorial Advisory Board, to ask if he thought these letters were an adequate response. Yes, he replied, they were a “sufficient—and probably more than sufficient—counterbalance.” He went on to say that “some of the letters suggest that […]
