The Once and Future Scriptures: Exploring the Role of the by Gregory Jenks

By Gregory Jenks

will we discover ways to take the Bible heavily with no taking it actually, to be sincere approximately its old, literary and spiritual personality? Can the Bible function a resource of religion, wish, and knowledge? during this ebook, educational theologians interact in a public dialog concerning the form of Bible now we have. this isn't a publication of solutions, yet a discussion approximately themes similar to the connection among technological know-how and faith, the authority of scripture, and the impression of severe biblical scholarship on liturgy.

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