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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...

has often lacked the self-critical capacity to invalidate illegitimate presuppositions (especially about the God-world relation), to rein in speculative flights of unhistorical reconstruction, or to restrict the application of redactional investigation from issues beyond its ken. For many the “limited goals and aims of redaction criticism were not properly understood.”53 These and other concerns with redaction criticism reflect real dangers to which evangelical scholars must be sensitive and responsive.