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The Word of God?: The Bible After Modern Scholarship
Author(s): Keith Ward (Author)
- Publisher: S.P.C.K. Publishing
- Publication Date: 21 Jan. 2010
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 160 pages
- ISBN-10: 0281062110
- ISBN-13: 9780281062119
Book Description
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 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 that the dominant image of transcendence, of spirituality, that slowly develops in its pages 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 is, in short, a spiritual text.
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Book Description
Explore Keith Ward’s insights on the Bible as a unique spiritual text, revealing its diverse authorship and the enduring quest for moral purpose through grace.
About the Author
Keith Ward is a fellow of the British Academy and Professional ResearchFellow at Heythrop College, London. He was formerly Professor of Religion at King’s College, London, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, and a member of the Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. He is also a well-known broadcaster and author of over twenty books, including More than Matter? and Is Religion Irrational?
