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Has God Said? Scripture, the Word of God, and the Crisis of Theological Authority is unavailable, but you can change that!

Has God said? Has God actually spoken, declared himself and his purposes to us? Historically the Christian faith has affirmed God's redemptive, revelatory speaking as historical, contentful, redemptive, centrally in Jesus Christ and, under Christ and by the Spirit, in the text of Holy Scripture. But in the past three centuries developments in Western culture have created a crisis in relation to...

It is the second aspect of this scandal that I wish to pursue here: can Holy Scripture be the written Word of God, given the historicity and humanness of its textuality as explained by biblical and literary criticism. Or are biblical and literary-critical approaches to Scripture inimical to the historical orthodox affirmation that Scripture is the written Word of God? Especially since the late seventeenth century, the human phenomena observable in the text of Scripture have been used to justify the
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