Engaging Biblical Authority

Author : William P. Brown
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 0664230571
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engaging Biblical Authority written by William P. Brown and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the Bible infallible or inerrant, as some churches claim? Is it a historical document or a piece of literature, as some scholars suggest? This book offers a brief introduction to the question of biblical authority, using essays written by sixteen scholars who use the Bible as the Word of God in their own religious tradition and in their scholarship. Beginning with an introduction to the foundational issues of biblical authority, these scholars each present a different, but sympathetic, view of the Bible from his or her own perspective and experience. Their voices include traditional Reformed, Lutheran, Wesleyan, Catholic, Jewish, and Orthodox views; recent conservative or evangelical positions; and critical African American, Asian American, Hispanic, feminist, and womanist perspectives. --From publisher's description.

Author : Sarah Heaner Lancaster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567206300
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Authority of Scripture written by Sarah Heaner Lancaster and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theological impact of accepting the absolute authority of biblical scripture is enormous-especially for women who attend and serve churches. But until now, few books have been willing to address this issue head on. Sarah Lancaster looks at the way women in the church have dealt with the question of scriptural authority and how they can address it in the future. Some women, she says, accept the authority of the Bible without question and stay in church without change of attitude or action. Others deny that the Bible has any authority, completely leaving Christianity in the belief that the Bible and Christian tradition are irredeemably patriarchal. Still others recognize that while scripture is largely patriarchal, it is authoritative for their life of faith. The Bible possesses a narrative coherence, its story resonating in our own lives. For women, the Bible can continue to "ring true" to their experience, letting them acknowledge scripture's authority in spite of its problems. The Bible is not about patriarchy; it is about how God is present to us and interacts with us in order to bring us to fullness of life. Lancaster says that women can criticize those things in scripture that help maintain a patriarchal world without invalidating scripture's authority. Scripture, she argues, informs, forms, and transforms. With its combination of narrative and feminist theology, Women and the Authority of Scripture brings a powerful new perspective to the doctrine of biblical authority in the contemporary world. Sarah Heaner Lancaster is Associate Professor of Theology, Methodist Theological School in Delaware, Ohio. She is an ordained elder in the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. She lives in Westerville, Ohio.

Author : Andrew Wommack
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606830821
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Believer's Authority written by Andrew Wommack and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversial subject of the spiritual authority of the believer in Christ is widely discussed in the church today. Now, Andrew Wommack, host of the #1 fastest growing ministry on television, gives us a new perspective that may challenge everything we've been taught including: If believers have been given authority, then when, how, and...

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9780800636678
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book that Breathes New Life written by Walter Brueggemann and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #NAME?

Author : Steven B. Cowan
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433676788
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Defense of the Bible written by Steven B. Cowan and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted scholars (William A. Dembski, Darrell L. Bock, etc.) address and respond to all major contemporary challenges (philosophical, historical, ethical, scientific, etc.) to the divine inspiration and authority of the Bible.

Author : Angela N. Parker
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467462535
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I? written by Angela N. Parker and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenge to the doctrine of biblical inerrancy that calls into question how Christians are taught more about the way of Whiteness than the way of Jesus Angela Parker wasn’t just trained to be a biblical scholar; she was trained to be a White male biblical scholar. She is neither White nor male. Dr. Parker’s experience of being taught to forsake her embodied identity in order to contort herself into the stifling construct of Whiteness is common among American Christians, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. This book calls the power structure behind this experience what it is: White supremacist authoritarianism. Drawing from her perspective as a Womanist New Testament scholar, Dr. Parker describes how she learned to deconstruct one of White Christianity’s most pernicious lies: the conflation of biblical authority with the doctrines of inerrancy and infallibility. As Dr. Parker shows, these doctrines are less about the text of the Bible itself and more about the arbiters of its interpretation—historically, White males in positions of power who have used Scripture to justify control over marginalized groups. This oppressive use of the Bible has been suffocating. To learn to breathe again, Dr. Parker says, we must “let God breathe in us.” We must read the Bible as authoritative, but not authoritarian. We must become conscious of the particularity of our identities, as we also become conscious of the particular identities of the biblical authors from whom we draw inspiration. And we must trust and remember that as long as God still breathes, we can too.

Author : David G. Peterson
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830898859
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engaging with God written by David G. Peterson and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worship is of immense concern in the church and ironically the source of controversy and dispute. Can we get behind the question of what style of worship we should engage in to understand the bedrock foundation for God's people--honoring him as he desires? Is the dissatisfaction with worship voiced by so many perhaps a result of our having wandered from biblical teaching on the subject? Through careful exegesis in both Old and New Testaments, David Peterson unveils the total life-orientation of worship that is found in Scripture. Rather than determining for ourselves how we should worship, we, his people, are called to engage with God on the terms he proposes and in the way he alone makes possible. This book calls for a radical rethinking of the meaning and practice of worship, especially by those responsible for leading congregations. Here is the starting place for recovering the richness of biblical worship.

Author : Rachel Green Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781629956114
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Authority and Submission written by Rachel Green Miller and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Innell Packer
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1598569619
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engaging the Written Word of God written by James Innell Packer and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of articles written over forty years, Packer sets out his beliefs about the authority of Scripture and the principles that should be applied when interpreting it. Important topics such as the adequacy of human language, upholding the unity of Scripture, and challenges in Biblical interpretation are considered in the first two sections: "Gods Inerrant Word" and "Interpreting the Word." In the final section, "Preaching the Word," Packer turns his attention to pastoral leaders and the importance of correct and responsible expository preaching.

Author : Charles Kraft
Publisher : Chosen Books
ISBN 13 : 1585580597
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Give You Authority written by Charles Kraft and published by Chosen Books. This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After His resurrection, Jesus did the most amazing thing: He passed His own authority on to His followers. To you. Right now you possess the same authority as Jesus. Authority to drive demons from people, to heal the sick, to claim protection from harm and harassment. You carry an amazing amount of Holy Spirit power. With incredible insight, respected scholar and teacher Dr. Charles Kraft helps awaken you to the extraordinary authority you have been given through the Holy Spirit--the same Spirit who empowered Jesus. Do you know how to wield it? He will show you how to exercise and release this authority properly and wisely into and over all areas of life--both your own and others'. You can transform and free lives from the oppressing power of Satan. We are at war, but we have the authority and power of Jesus to wage it. Fight with confidence and assurance, knowing that whatever the powers of darkness can muster, you can defeat them. You have the authority of heaven itself. How will you use it? "A remarkable book."--Francis and Judith MacNutt, Christian Healing Ministries