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The Struggle to Understand Isaiah as Christian Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

A key emphasis of Brevard Childs’ distinguished career has been to show not only that the canon of Scripture comprises both Old and New Testaments but also that the concept of “canon” includes the way the Christian church continues to wrestle in every age with the meaning of its sacred texts. In this new volume Childs uses the book of Isaiah as a case study of the church’ s endeavor throughout...

power to transform lives, to open new vistas of hope, and to offer the gift of divine reconciliation are part of the unexpected surprises inviting its readers to an encounter with a gracious and forgiving God. My purpose in writing this book is not immediately to offer yet another approach to the Bible. Rather, I have chosen to trace through the centuries the different ways in which great Christian theologians have struggled to understand the book of Isaiah as the church’s sacred scripture, that
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