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Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith? A Critical Appraisal of Modern and Postmodern Approaches to Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

Is historical accuracy an indispensable part of the Bible’s storyline, or is Scripture only concerned with theological truths? As progressive evangelicals threaten to reduce the Bible’s jurisdiction by undermining its historical claims, every Christian who cares about the integrity of Scripture must be prepared to answer this question. Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith? offers a firm defense...

Langdon Gilkey, who critiqued Wright and others for using orthodox language to describe God’s action in history but then attributing natural causes to the events.16 Gilkey’s critique actually reflects an Enlightenment-based scientific worldview that bifurcates natural and supernatural, which is antithetical to ancient worldviews in which no such dichotomy existed. Essays by James Barr in the early 1960s Childs described as the “final blow.”17 I am not at all convinced that Childs was correct because
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