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Sacred Word, Broken Word: Biblical Authority and the Dark Side of Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Bible is a religious masterpiece, casting a profound vision for the healing of humanity through the power of divine love, grace, and forgiveness. But the Bible also contains “dark texts” that challenge our ethical imagination. How can one book speak of loving our enemies and also speak of slaughtering Canaanites? Why does a book that preaches the equality of all people—male and female, slave...

of Jesus was largely the theology of a first-century Jew. And where that first-century theology was limited in its vision, so too was the theological vision of Jesus. Orthodoxy only demands that Jesus was sinless, not that his teachings were wholly insulated from the human condition. If there are difficulties in Marshall’s thesis, these involve the longstanding Christian debate about the communicatio idiomatum (“sharing of attributes”) between Jesus’ divine and human natures. To what extent were
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