“While not assuming truth is always in the moderate center, we try to avoid reactionary thought on the right or on the left.” That’s the word from one of the InterVarsity Press blogs, Addenda & Errata, in a post written by Dan Reid and entitled, “IVP Academic 3: An Ethos of University Publishing.” I, for one, thought the post was quite appropriate considering the kerfuffle that Jim West started with his inclusion of IVP on a list of resources that should not be cited. Jim’s declaration was: “Nothing really need be said here. When you open an InterVarsity publication you’ve opened the door to the dank and dark halls of fundamentalism. And fundamentalism just makes for very poor exegesis and theology.”

Dan would seem to disagree (not that he’s responding to Jim), not surprisingly, and he says that IVP’s British influence contributes to “a frame of mind that is not necessarily determined by the old fracture points established by the North American fundamentalist-modernist controversies.” Further, he says, “We like to think of one of the functions of IVP Academic as facilitating broader conversations that are taking place in the academy and the church.”

Just thought I’d throw it out there.