By D. A. Carson
Precious insights into key disputed subject matters from a veritable who is who of evangelical scholars
In this quantity thirty-seven satisfactory evangelical students current an intensive examine of biblical authority and a whole diversity of concerns attached to it.
Recognizing that Scripture and its authority are actually being either challenged and defended with renewed energy, editor D. A. Carson assigned the subjects that those pick out students handle within the e-book. After an advent by way of Carson to the various points of the present dialogue, the participants current strong essays on proper historic, biblical, theological, philosophical, epistemological, and comparative-religions subject matters. To finish, Carson solutions a few commonly asked questions about the character of Scripture, cross-referencing those FAQs to the previous chapters.
This finished quantity via a workforce of well-known specialists may be the go-to reference at the nature and authority of the Bible for years yet to come.
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David Crump, Encountering Jesus, Encountering Scripture: Reading the Bible Critically in Faith (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013). 20. Crump, Encountering Jesus, Encountering Scripture, 14. 21. Atlanta: SBL, 2013. 22. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014. 23. Robert Gundry, “Thinking Outside the Box,” B&C 21, no. /Feb. 2015): 34. 24. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008. 25. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005. 26. Wheaton: Crossway, 2012. Full disclosure: I too have written a lengthy review of Enns: cf. D. A. Carson, “Three More Books on the Bible: A Critical Review,” TrinJ 27 (2006): 1-62.
Daniel Shaw and Charles E. Van Engen, Communicating God’s Word in a Complex World: God’s Truth or Hocus Pocus? (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). 170. “Relevance Theory and the Translation of Scripture,” JETS 50 (2007): 773-97. 171. , Shabbir Akhtar, Islam as Political Religion: The Future of an Imperial Faith (New York: Routledge, 2011). 172. , Sigvad von Sicard, “Forgiveness and Reconciliation Through the Lenses of the Bible and the Qurʾan,” World Christianity in Muslim Encounter, vol.
It means we live in a time when it is no longer almost unthinkable to be an atheist, as was once the case; indeed, in many sectors of Western culture, a practical atheism is the default position. It means we live in a time of “expressive individualism,” in the “age of authenticity” (both are recurring phrases in Taylor) — a time when all authority is viewed with suspicion, when “authentic” living demands the sidelining of authority. We no longer think in terms of what everything means, in which we must find the order that is already built into the universe; rather, the “buffered self” must bring order and meaning to the universe.