The Bible Tells Me So - Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It

Zusatztext "Peter Enns has emerged as one of the stars of biblical interpretation for thinking Christians. With writing that is winsome! readable! and non-intimidating! he cuts a path between wooden literalism and faithless liberalism! giving us a way to read the Bible that is both faithful and intellectually credible." Informationen zum Autor Peter Enns (PhD, Harvard University) is the Abram S. Clemens Professor of Biblical Studies at Eastern University, St. David’s, Pennsylvania. He has also taught courses at Harvard University, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the host of The Bible for Normal People podcast, a frequent contributor to journals and encyclopedias, and the author of several books, including The Sin of Certainty, The Bible Tells Me So, and Inspiration and Incarnation. He lives in northern New Jersey. Klappentext What Do You Do When the Bible Doesn't Behave? Zusammenfassung The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adam recounts his transformative spiritual journey in which he discovered a new! more honest way to love and appreciate God’s Word. Trained as an evangelical Bible scholar! Peter Enns loved the Scriptures and shared his devotion! teaching at Westminster Theological Seminary. But the further he studied the Bible! the more he found himself confronted by questions that could neither be answered within the rigid framework of his religious instruction or accepted among the conservative evangelical community. Rejecting the increasingly complicated intellectual games used by conservative Christians to “protect” the Bible! Enns was conflicted. Is this what God really requires? How could God’s plan for divine inspiration mean ignoring what is really written in the Bible? These questions eventually cost Enns his job—but they also opened a new spiritual path for him to follow. The Bible Tells Me So chronicles Enns’s spiritual odyssey! how he came to see beyond restrictive doctrine and learned to embrace God’s Word as it is actually written. As he explores questions progressive evangelical readers of Scripture commonly face yet fear voicing! Enns reveals that they are the very questions that God wants us to consider—the essence of our spiritual study. ...

Product details

• Authors: Peter Enns
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2015
• EAN: 9780062272034
• ISBN: 978-0-06-227203-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Bibles, Theology, Christianity, History of Religion, Christian Churches, denominations, groups, Christian life and practice, Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works, Religion and beliefs, Relating to Christian people and groups, Old Testaments, RELIGION: Christian Theology / Apologetics, RELIGION: Inspirational, RELIGION: History, RELIGION: Biblical Studies / Old Testament / General, RELIGION: Biblical Studies / General, RELIGION: Christian Living / Spiritual Growth, RELIGION: Christian Theology / General, RELIGION: Christian Church / History, RELIGION: Faith, RELIGION: Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics