God’s Word in Human Words: A Review

by drmsheiser | Jan 27, 2009

I thought this would be of interest to many of you given the inspiration and inerrancy discussion. Kenton Sparks of Eastern  recently authored a book entitled, God’s Word in Human Words: An Evangelical Appropriation of Critical Biblical Scholarship. It is illustrative of the growing dissatisfaction (shared by me) of the way evangelicals have skirted tough issues with respect to what one actually finds in the biblical text, and the need to formulate what we say about Scripture in the context of full awareness and honesty of those issues. I haven’t read the book yet, so I don’t know if I agree or disagree with Sparks (or this reviewer). Nevertheless, this review was posted today on the SBL book review site.

Editor’s note: proof editing and broken link removed.
Also included below is a link to a post from Pete Enns; there’s no way of knowing if Dr. Heiser would agree with the below review, or to what degree, but it seems a valuable part of the ongoing conversation:

Initial Thoughts in a New Book Defending Evangelical Biblical Scholarship – The Bible For Normal People

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Historically-Conditioned Scriptures

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