The Word of God?: The Bible after Modern Scholarship
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Overview
Keith Ward introduces this volume on the world’s greatest ever bestseller by suggesting that the Bible is neither a book dictated by God, as some believe, nor just a set of outdated taboos and politically slanted histories, as those at the opposite extreme maintain. Rather, it is a very mixed set of documents, by many different writers, from many different times, which records the struggle of many people in one particular religious tradition to respond to their discernments of a transcendent spiritual power.
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- Analyzes the Bible as a set of documents
- Includes a comprehensive introduction to the Bible in modern scholarship
- Part 1: The Nature of Biblical Inspiration
- The Bible as a Spiritual Text
- Is the Bible Inerrant?
- Can We Believe in the Biblical Miracles?
- Diversity
- What Does Inspiration Mean?
- Part 2: The Old Testament
- Reading the Old Testament
- The Prophets
- Religious Beliefs in the Ancient World
- Prophetic Monotheism
- Are There Immoral Rules in the Old Testament?
- Part 3: Biblical Metaphors and Christian Doctrines
- Metaphor in the Bible
- Metaphors of Creation
- Metaphors of Incarnation
- Metaphors of Atonement
- Part 4: The New Testament
- The Positive Gospel of Unlimited Divine Love
- Metaphors of the Kingdom of God
- The Kingdom: A Case of Study
- Part 5: The Development of Ideas in the Bible
- The Development of Biblical Ideas of God and Morality
- New Testament Developments of Biblical Ideas
- The Development of Biblical Ideas of the Afterlife
- A Case Study in Development: Retributive and Restorative Justice
- Development Beyond the Bible: The Cosmic Story to which the Bible Points
- Conclusion: The Bible as the Word of God
- Title: The Word of God? The Bible after Modern Scholarship
- Author: Keith Ward
- Publisher: SPCK
- Publication Date: 2010
- Pages: 160
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Andrew Zoll
8/10/2017
Even if the work is trash, I'm glad that Logos sells it. It makes it easier to read, know, and refute the arguments of heretics.
George Somsel
7/16/2013
While Ward deals with a subject which is of importance for any Christian in a modern world (and while in some respects I would agree with him), his big failing is that he subjects everything to what seems right to his moral sensibility. Was this not the same attitude for which the king of Tyre was satirized ("I will be like God"); is it not the same attitude which is revealed in the Beast of Revelation; is it not that which is recounted in the story of the Garden ("You shall be like God"—"He has become like us"). While I certainly think that we need to reconsider our understanding of scripture, it is a new understanding of scripture which is needed, not a replacement of scripture with our own preferences.
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