God's Word in Human Words: An Evangelical Appropriation of Critical Biblical Scholarship
A Religion, New Testament, Theology book. This book needs to be better known - it seems highly underrated to me. Sparks...
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.
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- Pages: 415 pages
- ISBN: 9780801027017 / 801027012
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This book needs to be better known - it seems highly underrated to me. Sparks is very thorough, and seems to pay special attention to covering multiple angles as well as presenting good depth and breadth of evidence. The main topic at hand is the Evangelical tendency to either outright ignore or to go to extreme lengths to explain away... Outstanding. It took me a long time to work through this book as there was much to contemplate and study. But these efforts were incredibly rewarding. Take note that this book is at the threshold between the academic and the lay person, so be prepared for diving deeply into concepts and issues! Controversial, especially for a work with "evangelical" in the title. The author does better championing the validity of critical methods than he does explaining how to integrate them with evangelical theology.
