Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical Criticism
Title | Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher M. Hays |
Publisher | Baker Academic |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2013-11-19 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1441245758 |
Many introductions to biblical studies describe critical approaches, but they do not discuss the theological implications. This timely resource discusses the relationship between historical criticism and Christian theology to encourage evangelical engagement with historical-critical scholarship. Charting a middle course between wholesale rejection and unreflective embrace, the book introduces evangelicals to a way of understanding and using historical-critical scholarship that doesn't compromise Christian orthodoxy. The book covers eight of the most hotly contested areas of debate in biblical studies, helping readers work out how to square historical criticism with their beliefs.
Between Faith and Criticism
Title | Between Faith and Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Mark A. Noll |
Publisher | Regent College Publishing |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781573830980 |
Historian Mark Noll traces evangelicalism from its nineteenth-century roots. He applies lessons learned in the milieu of Great Britain and North America to answer the question: Have evangelicals grown to mature confidence in their views of God and Scripture so they may stand-alone if they must-between faith and higher critical skepticism? "This is nuts-and-bolts history at its best." - Douglas Jacobsen, Fides et Historia "This is not only an outstanding study of evangelical biblical scholarship, it is the best survey of the twentieth-century evangelical thought that we have." - George Marsden "This book will be of immense value to all who want to know what the background to current evangelical biblical scholarship is, and who want to explore the likely developments in the future." - Gerald Bray, The Churchman " Noll] has enriched our knowledge of this history through his mastery of its substance and has come to grips with its findings." - Todd Nichol, Word and World Mark A. Noll, the McManis Professor of Christian Thought and professor of church history at Wheaton College, has written more than ten books, including Religion, Faith and American Politics, and Christian Faith and Practice in the Modern World. He edited Confessions and Catechisms of the Reformation. His PhD degree is from Vanderbilt University.
Historical Criticism of the Bible: Methodology Or Ideology
Title | Historical Criticism of the Bible: Methodology Or Ideology PDF eBook |
Author | Eta Linnemann |
Publisher | Kregel Academic & Professional |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780825430954 |
A former liberal scholar and student of Rudolph Bultmann and Ernst Fuchs tells how modern biblical scholarship has drifted far from the truth, and why its assumptions are nonetheless so influential and thereby dangerous.
Historical Criticism of the Bible
Title | Historical Criticism of the Bible PDF eBook |
Author | Eta Linnemann |
Publisher | Baker Publishing Group (MI) |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
The Historical-Critical Method
Title | The Historical-Critical Method PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Krentz |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 97 |
Release | 2002-03-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1579109039 |
Edgar Krentz packs an impressive amount of material into these pages. He calls it a map of the current terrain; it is quite detailed and thoroughly reliable. The Christian Century Edgar Krentz's book introduces the reader to the type of modern biblical interpretation that has held the pride of place for more than a century.... Like its predecessors in the series, this book is an invaluable introduction for the student of the Bible. America
The Crisis of Evangelical Christianity
Title | The Crisis of Evangelical Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Keith C. Sewell |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2016-04-26 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1498238769 |
In the broad context of Christianity as it developed over two millennia, and with special reference to the last three centuries, this discussion finds that Evangelicalism has repeatedly offered a reduced and distorted understanding of the faith. The evangelical outlook is much less scriptural than evangelicals generally assume. When it comes to appreciating the order of creation, our calling to develop integral Christian thinking and living, the religious significance of culture, and the coming of the kingdom, reductionist Evangelicalism struggles with its only rarely acknowledged deficiencies. As a result, we have all too often ended up with a Christianity shorn of its cosmic scope and wide cultural implications, and restricted to institutional church life and the cultivation of private spiritual experience. The consequences are frequently enervating and corrosive. Without disregarding what is important in the past, evangelicals are here challenged to take the Bible much more seriously, and thereby transcend the limitations of their habitual reductionism. Evangelicals are encouraged to embrace an integral and full-orbed understanding of Christian discipleship that will equip the faithful to address the deep and complex challenges of the twenty-first century.
God's Word in Human Words
Title | God's Word in Human Words PDF eBook |
Author | Kenton L. Sparks |
Publisher | Baker Academic |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2008-03-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1441210741 |
The conclusions of critical biblical scholarship often pose a disconcerting challenge to traditional Christian faith. Between the two poles of uncritical embrace and outright rejection of these conclusions, is there a third way? Can evangelical believers incorporate the insights of biblical criticism while at the same time maintaining a high view of Scripture and a vital faith? In this provocative book, Kenton Sparks argues that the insights from historical and biblical criticism can indeed be valuable to evangelicals and may even yield solutions to difficult issues in biblical studies while avoiding pat answers. This constructive response to biblical criticism includes taking seriously both the divine and the human aspects of the Bible and acknowledging the diversity that exists in the biblical texts.