The Word of God?

Keith Ward introduces this volume on the world's greatest ever bestseller by suggesting that the Bible is neither a book dictated by God, as some believe, nor just a set of out-dated taboos and politically slanted histories, as those at the opposite extreme would maintain. Rather, it is a very mixed set of documents, by many different writers, from many different times, which records the struggle of many people in one particular religious tradition to respond to their discernments of a transcendent spiritual power. What makes the Bible distinctive among other religious books is the dominant image of transendence, of spirituality, that slowly develops in its pages. This is the image of a power that helps humans to seek a moral goal in history even when such a thing would seem impossible to achieve - were it not for the power of grace. The bible, in short, is a spiritual text.

ISBN 0281062110   Pages 160 ISBN13 9780281062119 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 191 Publisher SPCK Publishing   Published in London Imprint SPCK Publishing   Height (mm) 216 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 138 Publication date 22 Jan 2010   Spine width (mm) 9 DEWEY 220   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

Introduction		The Bible and modern scholarship
Pt. 1		The nature of Biblical inspiration
Pt. 2		The Old Testament
Pt. 3		Biblical metaphors and Christian doctrines
Pt. 4		The New Testament
Pt. 5		The development of ideas in the Bible
Conclusion		The Bible as the word of God
		Index

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