In Defense of the Bible: A Comprehensive Apologetic for the Authority of Scripture

by Steven B. Cowan; Terry L. Wilder

Publisher:

B&H

, 2013

Overview

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.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The coherence theory holds that a proposition is true just in case it coheres with other propositions.” (Page 49)

“To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false,’ Aristotle states, ‘while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.’⁸ This view, known as the correspondence theory of truth, makes the intuitively plausible claim that a proposition’s being true amounts to its accurately describing the way things are; in short, if a proposition p is true, then things are the way p says they are. More formally, this ‘theory maintains that the truth of a proposition p requires the following two conditions to be met: (1) it is a fact that p, and (2) the proposition corresponds to that fact.” (Pages 48–49)

“It is important to keep in mind that there is very little question about the reliability of most of the Hebrew text—textual criticism really only deals with a small portion of the overall text.” (Page 123)

“The goal of the OT text critic is to determine the final, authoritative form, which then was maintained by the scribes and was later recorded in the canon.” (Page 122)

“Stated more simply, the pragmatic theory holds that a proposition is true just in case ‘it is useful in practice.’^{19” (Page 50)}

Product Details

• Title: In Defense of the Bible: A Comprehensive Apologetic for the Authority of Scripture
• Authors: Steven B. Cowan, Terry L. Wilder
• Publisher: B&H
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Apologetics; Bible; Bible › Evidences, authority, etc
• ISBNs: 9781087793924, 9781433682995, 9781433676789, 1433682990, 1433676788, 1087793920
• Resource ID: LLS:9781433682995
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-09T19:00:26Z