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The Inspiration and Interpretation of Scripture: What the Early Church Can Teach Us is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is true of Scripture as a result of being inspired? What should divine inspiration cause us to expect from it? The answers to these questions in the early church related not just to the nature of Scripture’s truth claims but to the manner in which Scripture was to be interpreted. In this book Michael Graves delves into what Christians in the first five centuries believed about the...

but there is no doubt whatsoever that the Church Fathers took a decidedly didactic approach to the Bible, believing 2 Timothy 3:16 that all Scripture is “useful (ōphelimos) for teaching (didaskalia).” The general view of the Church Fathers on the profitableness of Scripture is captured well by this statement of Basil the Great introducing the Psalms: All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful, composed by the Spirit for this reason, namely, that we men, each and all of us, as if in a general
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