Word of God, Words of Men The Use and Abuse of Scripture

A. Daniel Frankforter

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Publisher's Synopsis

Literal readings of sacred texts are dangerous, for those who believe that they can quote the words of God implicitly claim the right to act with the authority of God. This text illustrates the abuses to which this leads, surveys discoveries about the composition and transmission of the Scriptures that make literalism untenable.

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Christian Alternative

Throughout the two thousand years of Christian tradition there have been, and still are, groups and individuals that exist in the margins and upon the edge of faith. But in Christianity's contrapuntal history it has often been these outcasts and pioneers that have forged contemporary orthodoxy out of former radicalism as belief evolves to engage with and encompass the ever-changing social and scientific realities. Real faith lies not in the comfortable certainties of the Orthodox, but somewhere in a half-glimpsed hinterland on the dirt track to Emmaus, where the Death of God meets the Resurrection, where the supernatural Christ meets the historical Jesus, and where the revolution liberates both the oppressed and the oppressors.

Book information

ISBN:	9781846945342
Publisher:	John Hunt Publishing
Imprint:	Christian Alternative
Pub date:	04 Feb 2021
DEWEY:	220.6
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	435
Weight:	434g
Height:	216mm
Width:	143mm
Spine width:	29mm