What sits on your Bible?
“It all comes down to authority, doesn’t it?” Stretching out his hand across the coffee shop table and resting it atop the Bible in front of him, a recent college graduate confessed to pastor Todd Pruitt that he had lost…
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Review: Gods Word in Human Words
God’s Word in Human Words: An Evangelical Appropriation of Critical Biblical ScholarshipBy Kenton L. Sparks416 p.Baker (March 2008)Reviewed by S.M. Baugh When the evangelical movement began not so very long ago, its one, defining doctrine that unified people from diverse…
Is Inerrancy Unbiblical, Rationalistic and Presumptuous? A critique of A.T.B. McGowan’s proposal for evangelicals to reject inerrancy
A. T. B. McGowan’s major item for evangelicals to reconsider, in his book The Divine Spiration of Scripture: Challenging evangelical perspectives, concerns the termination of inerrancy. Not only does he argue for the use of the word infallibility in place…
Dictionary For Theological Interpretation of the Bible
It might sound strange to suggest that we need a dictionary devoted to the theological interpretation of the Bible, but Kevin J. Vanhoozer wagers that we do with the publication of Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible (DTIB). A…
Surviving the Desert
“The most significant lesson that desert dwellers can learn . . . is to regard themselves not as exiles from some better place, but as people at home in an environment to which life can be adjusted.” When I was…
Three Books on the Bible: A Critical Review
The last few years have witnessed the publication of several books on the Bible, most of which are in some measure innovative. In addition to the three I shall review in this essay, one cannot overlook Peter Jensen’s The Revelation…
Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament
A book about the identity and purpose of the Bible must be of interest to any serious Christian. But at first glance Inspiration and Incarnation seems daunting. Peter Enns, a Professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, is…
Back to Jerusalem
“Are you going to the dogs this year?” was the question put to me. I suppose my initial reaction was that I should respond in the affirmative. I tend to think that I am making little progress in anything as…
Scripture Alone: The Evangelical Doctrine
This book contains a collection of essays on the doctrine of Scripture (covering almost a quarter century of material from 1974 to1996) all of which add light and justification to the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy of 1978 made by…
Lost in Translation
“In da Bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da earth.”-Genesis 1:1 The above translation of Gen.1:1 is taken from the hippest new version of the Bible to date. Does the language look familiar? Well, it might for some of you.…