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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...

now authenticity, is Scripture said to be “authoritative.” The Newtonian/Kantian denial of knowledge of God as he is in Christ and in Scripture by the Spirit has reversed the object of theological reflection from the incarnate and inscriptuated Word of God to “the feeling of absolute dependence” (Schleiermacher) or “new authentic self-understanding” (Bultmann). Paul Tillich Paul Tillich referred to himself as one who ever worked “on the boundary,” i.e., on the boundary between the old world and