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“Any scientific investigator of Scripture repeatedly confronts the issue of the character of the Bible’s authority,” writes Herman Ridderbos in the opening lines of this book. From there he goes on to examine the basis for the church’s acceptance of the New Testament as canonical. More than a merely academic question, the canonicity of the New Testament remains a vital concern for the church...

they encounter analogies and similarities with other writings and with other religious concepts and practices. They discover the different literary forms and varying content of the Bible—a diversity that often appears to be a function of Scripture’s humanity. Thus biblical scholars are confronted with the necessity of attempting to formulate the relationship between revelation and Scripture, between the Bible as the Word of God and the Bible as the word of man. Traditionally, theologians who have
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