Engaging Biblical Authority: Perspectives on the Bible as Scripture

Is the Bible infallible as some churches claim? Is it a historical document or a piece of literature as scholars suggest? This helpful new book offers a brief introduction to the question of biblical authority using essays by sixteen scholars who use the Bible as the word of God in their own religious tradition and scholarship. After William Brown introduces the basic issues of biblical authority each scholar presents a different but sympathetic view from his or her own perspective. Included are traditional Reformed Lutheran Wesleyan Catholic Jewish and Orthodox views; recent conservative and evangelical positions; and critical African American Asian American Hispanic feminist and womanist perspectives.