Inerrancy and Worldview
Inerrancy and Worldview

Author: Vern S. Poythress

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2012-05-31

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1433523906

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Though the Bible presents a personal and relational God, popular modern worldviews portray an impersonal divine force in a purely material world. Readers influenced by this competing worldview hold assumptions about fundamental issues—like the nature of humanity, evil, and the purpose of life—that present profound obstacles to understanding the Bible. In Inerrancy and Worldview, Dr. Vern Poythress offers the first worldview-based defense of scriptural inerrancy, showing how worldview differences create or aggravate most perceived difficulties with the Bible. His positive case for biblical inerrancy implicitly critiques the worldview of theologians like Enns, Sparks, Allert, and McGowan. Poythress, who has researched and published in a variety of fields— including science, linguistics, and sociology—deals skillfully with the challenges presented in each of these disciplines. By directly addressing key examples in each field, Poythress shows that many difficulties can be resolved simply by exposing the influence of modern materialism. Inerrancy and Worldview's positive response to current attempts to abandon or redefine inerrancy will enable Christians to respond well to modern challenges by employing a worldview that allows the Bible to speak on its own terms.

Verbal Inspiration of the Bible and Its Scientific Accuracy
Verbal Inspiration of the Bible and Its Scientific Accuracy

Author: John R. Rice

Publisher: Sword of the Lord Publishers

Published: 1943

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780873988759

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Those who believe the Bible to be literally and infallibly the Word of God, reliable and exactly true in every detail, are in good company. They agree with the great saints of God throughout the ages. Those who have foolish theories about mistakes and inaccuracies in the Bible deny the very Word of God itself. Either the Bible is what it claims to be, the eternal and infallible and perfect Word of God, or it is an imposture. - p. 5.

An Introductory Dictionary of Theology and Religious Studies
An Introductory Dictionary of Theology and Religious Studies

Author: Orlando O. Espín

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 1566

ISBN-13: 9780814658567

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Spanning the gamut from "Aaron" to "Zwingli," this dictionary includes nearly 3,000 entries written by about sixty authors, all of whom are specialists in their various theological and religious disciplines. The editors have designed the dictionary especially to aid the introductory-level student with instant access to definitions of terms likely to be encountered in, but not to substitute for, classroom presentations or reading assignments. - Publisher.

Inspiration and Canonicity of the Scriptures
Inspiration and Canonicity of the Scriptures

Author: R. Laird Harris

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2008-09-01

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1556358873

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In the modern debate on biblical interpretation and verbal inerrancy, this book gives weighty evidence for the historic Christian position that the Bible, the sacred canon, is the very truth of God and that it can be interpreted, understood, and applied in our time. The book considers the phenomena and data of the Bible and finds them consistent with the teaching of Christ and the apostles that they are both true and meaningful in any culture. Inspiration of the Bible and the canonical status of its books are closely interrelated matters, but the treatment of both subjects in one volume is all to rare. In the treatment of the canon, the book quotes extensively from the sources--the very early Christian writers as well as recent finds--the Dead Sea Scrolls and the books and papyri from Nag Hammadi in Egypt. It combines the extensive historical evidence with the witness and claims of the Bible itself. Reviews of the original work--that it was well-documented and thorough but profitable for any serious Christian layman--are still applicable to the revised and updated edition.