What kind of authority does Scripture have? How is Scripture's authority to be negotiated in relation to other sources of authority? And what are the implications of confessing the Bible to be authoritative? The Bible: Culture, Community and Society seeks to answer these questions, covering three core themes. First, reading the Bible in the context of modernity - the challenges the intellectual history of modernity has posed to the Bible's authority and how historical work can co-exist with a commitment to the Bible as the Word of God. Secondly, the Bible as a text that forms the church community - how the Bible as an authoritative text shapes a culture. Thirdly, reading the Bible as a public text and the challenges posed by holding to the Bible as the Word of God in a religiously diverse context. The highly distinguished contributors include Ben Quash, David Ferguson, Angus Paddison and Zoe Bennett.
What kind of authority does Scripture have? How is Scripture's authority to be negotiated in relation to other sources of authority? And what are the implications of confessing the Bible to be authoritative? The Bible: Culture, Community and Society seeks to answer these questions, covering three core themes. First, reading the Bible in the context of modernity - the challenges the intellectual history of modernity has posed to the Bible's authority and how historical work can co-exist with a commitment to the Bible as the Word of God. Secondly, the Bible as a text that forms the church community - how the Bible as an authoritative text shapes a culture. Thirdly, reading the Bible as a public text and the challenges posed by holding to the Bible as the Word of God in a religiously diverse context. The highly distinguished contributors include Ben Quash, David Ferguson, Angus Paddison and Zoe Bennett.
Introduction Neil Messer and Angus Paddison
Part I - Reading the Bible in Modernity: The Authority of the
Bible in an Age of Science and History
The Bible in Modernity David Fergusson
Science and the Bible Adam and his "Fall" as a Case Study Richard
Bell
History and the Bible The Bible, The Means of Life, and the
Historical Imagination Ellen Davis
Part II - The Bible as a Formative Text: Reading the Bible in
the Church and Community
John Ruskin and the Bible Zoë Bennett
Community, Imagination and the Bible Ben Quash
Part III - Reading the Bible in Public
Reading the Bible Amidst the World Faiths Gavin D'Costa
The Bible and Public Theology Andrew Bradstock
The Bible: What Kind of Authority? Angus Paddison and Neil
Messer
This book brings ethical, political, historical, and theological questions into contact with the Bible as a living, authoritative text.
Neil Messer is Reader in Theology and Head of the
Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of
Winchester, UK. He is the author of Respecting Life: Theology and
Bioethics, Selfish Genes and Christian Ethics: Theological and
Ethical Reflections on Evolutionary Biology, and Study Guide to
Christian Ethics.
Angus Paddison is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious
Studies at the University of Winchester, UK.
This is a very useful little reflection on theological ethics.
Altogether a worthwhile volume, showing encouraging
and careful reflection.
*Journal of Theological Studies*
These essays will prove beneficial for those interested in the
implications of reading strategies of the Bible for modern cultures
and communities. Furthermore, the printed volume will function as a
proxy for those unable to be in attendance during the original
conference.
*The Expository Times*
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