Three Skeptics And The Bible

Author : Jeffrey L. Morrow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498239165

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Three Skeptics and the Bible by Jeffrey L. Morrow Pdf

Biblical scholars by and large remain unaware of the history of their own discipline. This present volume seeks to remedy that situation by exploring the early history of modern biblical criticism in the seventeenth century prior to the time of the Enlightenment when the birth of modern biblical criticism is usually dated. After surveying the earlier medieval origins of modern biblical criticism, the essays in this book focus on the more skeptical works of Isaac La Peyrere, Thomas Hobbes, and Baruch Spinoza, whose biblical interpretation laid the foundation for what would emerge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as modern biblical criticism.

Author : John S. Dickerson
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493419203

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Jesus Skeptic by John S. Dickerson Pdf

Can we know if Jesus actually lived? Have Jesus's followers been a force for good or evil in history? A respected journalist set out to find the answers--not from opinion but from artifacts. The evidence led him to an unexpected conclusion: Jesus really existed and launched the greatest movement for social good in human history. A first-of-its-kind book for a new generation, Jesus Skeptic takes nothing for granted as it explores whether Jesus actually lived and how his story has changed our world. You'll - learn what heroes like Martin Luther King Jr. and Harriet Tubman believed about Jesus - discover how Jesus inspired women's rights, education rights, and modern hospitals - see visual proofs of Jesus's impact, never before compiled in one place - be inspired to continue Jesus's fight for human rights, justice, and progress Jesus Skeptic unveils convincing physical evidence that will enlighten seekers, skeptics, and longtime Christians alike. In a generation that wants to make the world a better place, we can discover what humanity's greatest champions had in common: a Christian faith.

Author : Jeffrey L. Morrow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532657405

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Pretensions of Objectivity by Jeffrey L. Morrow Pdf

Modern historical biblical criticism, while having many strengths, often operates under the pretensions of objectivity, as if such scholarship were neutral and disinterested. Examining the history and roots of modern biblical scholarship shows that such objectivity is elusive, and was never intended by the method's earliest practitioners. Building upon his earlier work in Three Skeptics and the Bible and Theology, Politics, and Exegesis, Morrow continues this historical investigation into the political and philosophical roots of modern biblical criticism in Pretensions of Objectivity, in the hope of developing a criticism of biblical criticism and of making space for theological exegesis.

Author : Timothy Keller
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780525954156

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Making Sense of God by Timothy Keller Pdf

We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives? In this thoughtful and inspiring new book, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller invites skeptics to consider that Christianity is more relevant now than ever. As human beings, we cannot live without meaning, satisfaction, freedom, identity, justice, and hope. Christianity provides us with unsurpassed resources to meet these needs. Written for both the ardent believer and the skeptic, Making Sense of God shines a light on the profound value and importance of Christianity in our lives.

Author : John A. Buehrens
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807010587

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Understanding the Bible by John A. Buehrens Pdf

A thoughtful, warm, and witty introduction Understanding the Bibleis designed to help empower skeptics, seekers, nonbelievers, and those of a liberal and progressive outlook to reclaim the Bible from literalists. In making accessible some of the best contemporary historical, literary, political, and feminist readings of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, it encourages all who would find in the biblical heritage an ally and not an enemy in the quest for a more just and humane world. Brief and to the point, it can easily be used to stimulate group discussions and personal reading of the biblical texts themselves, and is an excellent introduction to the Judeo-Christian tradition for those of other faiths. Understanding the Bible includes four preliminary chapters on the why, who, which, and how of biblical understanding, followed by eight brief thematic chapters covering the core of the Hebrew Bible and six covering the Christian scriptures, plus chronologies, maps, and helpful suggestions for further reading.

Author : Jeffrey L. Morrow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532614927

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Theology, Politics, and Exegesis by Jeffrey L. Morrow Pdf

Modern biblical scholars often view the methods they employ as objective and neutral, tracing the history of modern biblical scholarship to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this volume, Jeffrey Morrow examines some earlier, lesser known roots of modern biblical scholarship. He explores biblical scholarship from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries and then discusses its new place in the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century where such scholarship would flourish. Far from merely an objective and neutral method, such scholarship was never without philosophical, theological, and political underpinnings. Morrow concludes the volume with a look at the separation of biblical studies from theology, using the example of Catholic moral theology in the twentieth century.

Author : Jeffrey L. Morrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813231211

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Alfred Loisy and Modern Biblical Studies by Jeffrey L. Morrow Pdf

Author : Scott Hahn,Jeffrey L. Morrow
Publisher : Emmaus Academic
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781949013665

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Modern Biblical Criticism as a Tool of Statecraft (1700-1900) by Scott Hahn,Jeffrey L. Morrow Pdf

Modern biblical scholarship is often presented as analogous to the hard and natural sciences; its histories present the developmental stages as quasi-scientific discoveries. That image of Bible scholars as neutral scientists in pursuit of truth has persisted for too long. Modern Biblical Criticism as a Tool of Statecraft (1700-1900) by Scott W. Hahn and Jeffrey L. Morrow examines the lesser known history of the development of modern biblical scholarship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This volume seeks partially to fulfill Pope Benedict XVI’s request for a thorough critique of modern biblical criticism by exploring the eighteenth and nineteenth century roots of modern biblical scholarship, situating those scholarly developments in their historical, philosophical, theological, and political contexts. Picking up where Scott W. Hahn and Benjamin Wiker’s Politicizing the Bible: The Roots of Historical Criticism and the Secularization of Scripture 1300-1700 left off, Hahn and Morrow show how biblical scholarship continued along a secularizing trajectory as it found a home in the newly developing Enlightenment universities, where it received government funding. Modern Biblical Criticism as a Tool of Statecraft (1700-1900) makes clear why the discipline of modern biblical studies is often so hostile to religious and faith commitments today.

Author : David Kidd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1545634963

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Skeptics Vs. Scripture Book I by David Kidd Pdf

"Skeptics vs. Scripture - Book 1" is a guided tour through a maze of questions that challenge Christian beliefs. In each chapter, a skeptic is permitted to make his case against God, Christianity, and the Bible in his own words, giving readers an inside view of an atheist's perspective. Author David Kidd applies sound biblical interpretation, rational arguments, and compelling real-life examples to expose skeptic errors and demonstrate the accuracy and reliability of the Bible. This book turns the tables on unbelief by using logic and reason to explain foundational Christian truths in everyday language.

Author : Travis DeCook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108830812

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The Origins of the Bible and Early Modern Political Thought by Travis DeCook Pdf

Explores the cultural functions played in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by accounts of the Bible's origins.

Author : Kirsten Macfarlane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192898821

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Biblical Scholarship in an Age of Controversy by Kirsten Macfarlane Pdf

This book provides a new account of a distinctive, important, but forgotten moment in early modern religious and intellectual history. In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Christian scholars were investing heavily in techniques for studying the Bible that would now be recognised as the foundations of modern biblical criticism. According to previous studies, this process of transformation was caused by academic elites whose work, whether religious or secular in its motivations, paved the way for the Bible to be seen as a human document rather than a divine message. At the time, however, such methods were not simply an academic concern, and they pointed in many directions other than that of secular modernity. Biblical Scholarship in an Age of Controversy establishes previously unknown religious and cultural contexts for the practice of biblical criticism in the early modern period, and reveals the diversity of its effects. The central figure in this story is the itinerant and bitterly divisive English scholar Hugh Broughton (1549-1612), whose prolific writings in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and English offer a new and surprising image of Protestant intellectual culture. In this image, scholarly advances were not impeded but inspired by strict scripturalism; criticism was driven by missionary ideals, even as actual proselytization was sidelined; and learned neo-Latin texts were repackaged to appeal to ordinary believers. Seen through the eyes of Broughton and his neglected colleagues and followers, the complex and unexpected contributions of reformed Protestant intellectuals and laypeople to longer-term religious and cultural change finally become visible.

Author : Jeffrey L. Morrow,John Bergsma
Publisher : Emmaus Academic
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645851516

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Murmuring Against Moses: The Contentious History and Contested Future of Pentateuchal Studies by Jeffrey L. Morrow,John Bergsma Pdf

For much of the history of both Judaism and Christianity, the Pentateuch—first five books of the Bible—was understood to be the unified work of a single inspired author: Moses. Yet the standard view in modern biblical scholarship contends that the Pentateuch is a composite text made up of fragments from diverse and even discrepant sources that originated centuries after the events it purports to describe. In Murmuring against Moses, John Bergsma and Jeffrey Morrow provide a critical narrative of the emergence of modern Pentateuchal studies and challenge the scholarly consensus by highlighting the weaknesses of the modern paradigms and mustering an array of new evidence for the Pentateuch’s antiquity. By shedding light on the past history of research and the present developments in the field, Bergsma and Morrow give fresh voice to a growing scholarly dissatisfaction with standard critical approaches and make an important contribution toward charting a more promising future for Pentateuchal studies.

Author : Eric Huffman
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781791004224

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Scripture and the Skeptic by Eric Huffman Pdf

The Bible is the best-selling, most widely read, and most quoted book in history. It is also misunderstood, misquoted, and fiercely debated. If, as Christians believe, the Bible is the Word of God, why is it so complex and difficult to interpret in parts, yet simple enough for even children to understand in others? In Scripture and the Skeptic Eric Huffman, author of 40 Days of Doubt, helps readers understand and cope with confusion about the Bible and provides answers to questions by reframing it as a perfect and seamless story. Huffman illustrates how the Bible, even the parts some consider ungodly, presents the beautiful story that God intended to tell. Through storytelling from his own experiences and his take on Bible stories, Huffman helps readers understand the Bible by interpreting the entire book through the lens of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection. He shows how every part of the Bible is either crying out for Jesus, witnessing his incarnation, or responding in the aftermath of his resurrection. Readers discover how to trust the Bible as God’s beautiful and perfect salvation story. Includes questions with each chapter for personal reflection or group study. From the author of 40 Days of Doubt: Devotions for the Skeptic.

Author : Brant Pitre, Ph.D.,John Bergsma
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 1066 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781586177225

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A Catholic Introduction to the Bible by Brant Pitre, Ph.D.,John Bergsma Pdf

Although many Catholics are familiar with the four Gospels and other writings of the New Testament, for most, reading the Old Testament is like walking into a foreign land. Who wrote these forty-six books? When were they written? Why were they written? What are we to make of their laws, stories, histories, and prophecies? Should the Old Testament be read by itself or in light of the New Testament? John Bergsma and Brant Pitre offer readable in-depth answers to these questions as they introduce each book of the Old Testament. They not only examine the literature from a historical and cultural perspective but also interpret it theologically, drawing on the New Testament and the faith of the Catholic Church. Unique among introductions, this volume places the Old Testament in its liturgical context, showing how its passages are employed in the current Lectionary used at Mass. Accessible to nonexperts, this thorough and up-to-date introduction to the Old Testament can serve as an idea textbook for biblical studies. Its unique approach, along with its maps, illustrations, and other reference materials, makes it a valuable resource for seminarians, priests, Scripture scholars, theologians, and catechists, as well as anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the Bible.

Author : Canice Njoku C.S.Sp
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781098002657

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Important Themes in Biblical Theology by Canice Njoku C.S.Sp Pdf

This work is a collection of twenty-five papers that I have personally written. They consist of themes which were actually suggested, assigned and moderated by seasoned professors and biblical scholars in various aspects of Biblical Theology. Although, in some cases I have modified the themes, yet, I tried as much as possible to remain focused on the objectives of the papers. One very interesting point to note is, the treatment of most of these themes basically from the biblical perspective. This is mostly with regards to themes drawn from courses which are not "strictly scriptural courses", but rather are more of theological courses, which nonetheless, form an integral part of the study of Biblical Theology. So, in addition to the core scriptural courses, I have featured themes from: Fundamental Theology, Ecclesiology and Eschatology, Sacramental and Liturgical Theology, Trinitarian Theology etcetera. Also, it suffices to note that this work is not a commentary on the bible, nor is it a comprehensive approach to all the courses in Biblical Theology. Rather, it is a treatment of some important, provocative and challenging themes scholars or students encounter in the course of their study of Biblical Theology. This is simply meant to give one an idea of how these themes together shape Biblical Theology, and most importantly, how to approach some of these themes. I hope you will find them very helpful and interesting.