Book Description
With courtesy and restraint Professor Woodbridge administers a series of knock-out blows to the confidently voiced claim that factual inerrancy is no authentic element in the historic Christian view of Scripture.
Author : John D. Woodbridge
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,22 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310447518
With courtesy and restraint Professor Woodbridge administers a series of knock-out blows to the confidently voiced claim that factual inerrancy is no authentic element in the historic Christian view of Scripture.
Author : Jack Rogers
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 1999-02-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1579102131
This book is a detailed and comprehensive study of attitudes toward biblical authority and interpretation held from the beginnings of the Christian era to the present day. In clear and readable fashion, the authors examine the writings of early church fathers, the medieval exegetes, and the leaders of the Protestant Reformation to locate the source of, and refute, the position of inerrancy.
Author : Jack Rogers
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : John D. Woodbridge
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310524601
With courtesy and restraint Professor Woodbridge administers a series of knock-out blows to the confidently voiced claim that factual inerrancy is no authentic element in the historic Christian view of Scripture.
Author : John Barton
Publisher : Bampton Lectures
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Author : Steven B. Cowan
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1535965436
In Defense of the Bible gathers exceptional articles by accomplished scholars (Paul Copan, William A. Dembski, Mary Jo Sharp, Darrell L. Bock, etc.), addressing and responding to all of the major contemporary challenges to the divine inspiration and authority of Scripture. The book begins by looking at philosophical and methodological challenges to the Bible—questions about whether or not it is logically possible for God to communicate verbally with human beings; what it means to say the Bible is true in response to postmodern concerns about the nature of truth; defending the clarity of Scripture against historical skepticism and relativism. Contributors also explore textual and historical challenges—charges made by Muslims, Mormons, and skeptics that the Bible has been corrupted beyond repair; questions about the authorship of certain biblical books; allegations that the Bible borrows from pagan myths; the historical reliability of the Old and New Testaments. Final chapters take on ethical, scientific, and theological challenges— demonstrating the Bible’s moral integrity regarding the topics of slavery and sexism; harmonizing exegetical and theological conclusions with the findings of science; addressing accusations that the Christian canon is the result of political and theological manipulation; ultimately defending the Bible as not simply historically reliable and consistent, but in fact the Word of God.
Author : Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 25,31 MB
Release : 2005-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801026946
This groundbreaking reference tool introduces key names, theories, and concepts for interpreting Scripture.
Author : Michael J. Lee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 17,12 MB
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1137299665
According to conventional wisdom, by the late 1800s, the image of Bible as a supernatural and infallible text crumbled in the eyes of intellectuals under the assaults of secularizing forces. This book corrects the narrative by arguing that in America, the road to skepticism had already been paved by the Scriptures' most able and ardent defenders.
Author : L. William Countryman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 1994-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1563380854
Proposes that scripture be understood as a word that prompts more questions than it answers and that in scripture God has not uttered the last word for us, but the first.
Author : Seth Perry
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0691179131
Early Americans claimed that they looked to "the Bible alone" for authority, but the Bible was never, ever alone. Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States is a wide-ranging exploration of the place of the Christian Bible in America in the decades after the Revolution. Attending to both theoretical concerns about the nature of scriptures and to the precise historical circumstances of a formative period in American history, Seth Perry argues that the Bible was not a "source" of authority in early America, as is often said, but rather a site of authority: a cultural space for editors, commentators, publishers, preachers, and readers to cultivate authoritative relationships. While paying careful attention to early national bibles as material objects, Perry shows that "the Bible" is both a text and a set of relationships sustained by a universe of cultural practices and assumptions. Moreover, he demonstrates that Bible culture underwent rapid and fundamental changes in the early nineteenth century as a result of developments in technology, politics, and religious life. At the heart of the book are typical Bible readers, otherwise unknown today, and better-known figures such as Zilpha Elaw, Joseph Smith, Denmark Vesey, and Ellen White, a group that includes men and women, enslaved and free, Baptists, Catholics, Episcopalians, Methodists, Mormons, Presbyterians, and Quakers. What they shared were practices of biblical citation in writing, speech, and the performance of their daily lives. While such citation contributed to the Bible's authority, it also meant that the meaning of the Bible constantly evolved as Americans applied it to new circumstances and identities.