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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...

I will conclude this chapter on the “usefulness” of Scripture with a concept that touches on how Scripture is to be used in relation to other sources of knowledge. The idea here is that Scripture is the highest authority among all forms of God’s revelation to humanity. Whether it be divine revelation in nature, in reason, in church traditions, or in a person’s inner experience, all of these must be evaluated by the standard set
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