The Word of God? The Bible after Modern Scholarship. By Keith Ward
Keith Ward is well known as a distinguished, lucid, and robust theological author who writes both scholarly and popularizing studies. This book belongs to the latter category, and is a sequel to his What the Bible Really Teaches (2004). Unlike with some of his other works, however, which I have much...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 695-697 |
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| Summary: | Keith Ward is well known as a distinguished, lucid, and robust theological author who writes both scholarly and popularizing studies. This book belongs to the latter category, and is a sequel to his What the Bible Really Teaches (2004). Unlike with some of his other works, however, which I have much appreciated and learned from, I have found myself struggling somewhat here., On one level, there is perhaps no problem. Ward articulates an informed Christian understanding of the Bible as a spiritual book, which is to be interpreted in the light of Christ. ‘The Bible is not a text-book of true facts and doctrines. It is the witness to life-changing discernments of God, which occur as the events of human history are seen in the light of the eternal reality of God’ (p. 148). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq050 |