A High View of Scripture?

A High View of Scripture?Word Guild 2008 Writing Award (Biblical Studies) Where did the Bible come from? Author Craig D. Allert encourages more evangelicals to ask that question. In A High View of Scripture? Allert introduces his audience to the diverse history of the canon's development and what impact it has today on how we view Scripture. Allert affirms divine inspiration of the Bible and, in fact, urges the very people who proclaim the ultimate authority of the Bible to

strategies

and students of Scripture

the Gospels

providing a framework for further study

This work will be of special interest to readers concerned about the so-called "new atheism

They are uncertain how to preach the highly emotive poems in Psalms

Leading congregational studies researcher Scott Cormode explores the role of Christian practices in recalibrating the church for the twenty-first century

and thoughtful laypeople

he situates the Sermon in dialogue with the Jewish and Greek virtue traditions and the philosophical-theological question of human flourishing

an exegete

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cultural backdrop