Revelation, Inspiration & Interpretation
Donald G. Bloesch
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© 1994 by Donald G. Bloesch
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The Scripture quotations quoted herein are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1946, 1952, 1971 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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ISBN-10: 0–8308-2752–8
ISBN-13: 978–0-8308–2752-7
Library of Congress Cataloging–in–Publication Data
Bloesch, Donald G., 1928–
Holy Scripture: revelation, inspiration & interpretation / Donald G. Bloesch.
p. cm.—(Christian foundations)
Originally published: c1994.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 0–8308-1412–4 (cloth: alk. paper)—ISBN 0–8308-2752–8 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Bible—Hermeneutics. 2. Bible—Evidences, authority, etc. I. Title.
BS476.B56 2006
220.601—dc22
2005052140
God teaches through his Spirit and through the letter that has been written by the inspiration of his Spirit.
Ulrich Zwingli
Without the Scripture, which has only Jesus Christ as its object, we know nothing, and see only darkness and confusion in the nature of God and in nature herself.
Blaise Pascal
The gospel of God’s historic act of grace is the infallible power and authority over both church and Bible. It produced them both.
P. T. Forsyth
When I am asked … which of these articles of the Evangelical faith I am prepared to part with at the instance of modern thought, and in the interests of a re–constructed theology, I answer, with fullest confidence: None of them.
James Orr
Orthodoxy is a knife–edge, a narrow path, a via media: a position hard to maintain, a path difficult to follow, a way easy to get wrong.
Kenneth Leech
Dedicated to my mother,
Adele Bloesch,
and to the memory of my father,
Herbert Paul Bloesch
The Witness of Sacred Tradition
Toward a Theology of Word and Spirit
2 The Crisis in Biblical Authority
Inerrancy and Infallibility in Historical Perspective
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About Holy Scripture: Revelation, Inspiration & InterpretationIn dialogue with Martin Luther, John Calvin, P. T. Forsyth, Karl Barth and Emil Brunner, Bloesch’s Holy Scripture examines the implications of biblical authority for the twenty–first century. It surveys the role of the Bible as seen within the Bible itself and as that role has unfolded through centuries of Christian tradition. It also explains and critiques many highly contested issues, such as the value of biblical criticism, the meaning of myth, the plethora of hermeneutical options and the nature of truth. Wishing to “defend the orthodox evangelical faith from its friends as well as its enemies,” Bloesch provocatively argues against both evangelical rationalism and liberal experientialism. And he proposes the alternative of biblical evangelicalism—which sees Scripture as the written Word of God but stresses that it becomes the living Word of God only through the illumination of the Holy Spirit. |
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