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In modern times, evangelical Protestants have advocated for the belief that the Bible is the only real standard of truth and true Christian praxis for the church. But is this how the early Jews and Christians, who wrote the biblical books, viewed their sacred texts? And what counted as those sacred texts? Furthermore, there is often a lack of clarity as to what is meant by the famous phrase that became a motto of the German Reformation: sola scriptura. Does it mean that the Bible is the only authority for Christian faith and practice, or does it mean the Bible is the final authority, allowing non-biblical traditions, human reason, and perhaps even experience to have some authority in the church?With this magisterial study, Ben Witherington III invites readers to go back to the time of the writing of the Bible and look at what is said about the sacred texts with a specific focus on how the authority of such texts was viewed. Witherington then walks through Christian history until the point where the phrase sola scriptura actually appears as an authority claim of some kind. Surprisingly, it does not show up until the fourteenth century A.D. and not in the writings of a Protestant. From there, Witherington examines how the phrase continued to be used in the various Reformations and into the modern era. The story of Sola Scriptura also involves the rise of science, the effect of the Enlightenment, and changes in views about human sexuality that have affected the discussion of the Bible’s authority in various ways.Students of Scripture, budding scholars, pastors, and laity alike stand to benefit from this book as Christians of all stripes are confronted by the same crises: a profound historical amnesia that is affecting even churches that are bibliocentric; the general chaos in Western culture that has further alienated younger generations from the church and angered the older generations who still attend church; and the increasing biblical illiteracy in the church, including in its pulpits, which has led to churches taking their signals and sense of direction from the culture rather than the biblical witness itself. Such crises will not be overcome without a serious coming to grips with the Bible, its history, and its authority for the Christian life.
Bible --- Evidences, authority, etc. --- History.
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The studies in this volume go beyond the question of the authenticity of Prophetic narrations, which has occupied the field of Hadith Studies for over a century. By approaching hadith narrations and literature from various perspectives, the authors seek to uncover the potential that hadith material has to better understand the intellectual and social history of Muslim societies. Applying concepts and methods from other disciplines, the authors study the materiality of hadith collections, the places they were read, and the ways they were incorporated in architecture. Additionally, they explore understudied genres such as the forty-hadith, the 'fada'il', 'ahadith al-ahkam', and 'awali collections'. As such, they set a new course to push the field of Hadith Studies in a new direction.
Hadith --- Authorities. --- Evidences, authority, etc. --- Authenticité.
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The first collection of scholarly essays on the key texts and critical themes of hadith commentary--a central site of Islamic intellectual life for more than a millennium--across diverse periods, regions, and sects.
Hadith --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Evidences, authority, etc.
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"The studies in this volume go beyond the question of the authenticity of Prophetic narrations, which has occupied the field of Hadith Studies for over a century. By approaching hadith narrations and literature from various perspectives, the authors seek to uncover the potential that hadith material has to better understand the intellectual and social history of Muslim societies. Applying concepts and methods from other disciplines, the authors study the materiality of hadith collections, the places they were read, and the ways they were incorporated in architecture. Additionally, they explore understudied genres such as the forty-hadith, the fada'il, ahadith al-ahkam, and 'awali collections. As such, they set a new course to push the field of Hadith Studies in a new direction"--
Hadith --- Hadith --- Authorities. --- Evidences, authority, etc.
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Christian life --- Bible --- Bible --- Evidences, authority, etc. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Is the Bible the unembellished Word of God or the product of human agency? There are different answers to that question. And they lie at the heart of this book's powerful exploration of the fraught ways in which money, race and power shape the story of Christianity in American public life. The authors' subject is the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC: arguably the latest example of a long line of white evangelical institutions aiming to amplify and promote a religious, political, and moral agenda of their own. In their careful and compelling investigation, Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon disclose the ways in which the Museum's exhibits reinforce a particularized and partial interpretation of the Bible's meaning. Bringing to light the Museum's implicit messaging about scriptural provenance and audience, the authors reveal how the MOTB produces a version of the Bible that in essence authorizes a certain sort of white evangelical privilege; promotes a view of history aligned with that same evangelical aspiration; and above all protects a cohort of white evangelicals from critique. They show too how the Museum collapses vital conceptual distinctions between its own conservati
Christianity --- Museum of the Bible. --- Bible --- Evidences, authority, etc. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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"Is the Bible the unembellished Word of God or the product of human agency? There are different answers to that question. And they lie at the heart of this book's powerful exploration of the fraught ways in which money, race and power shape the story of Christianity in American public life. The authors' subject is the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC: arguably the latest example of a long line of white evangelical institutions aiming to amplify and promote a religious, political, and moral agenda of their own. In their careful and compelling investigation, Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon disclose the ways in which the Museum's exhibits reinforce a particularized and partial interpretation of the Bible's meaning. Bringing to light the Museum's implicit messaging about scriptural provenance and audience, the authors reveal how the MOTB produces a version of the Bible that in essence authorizes a certain sort of white evangelical privilege; promotes a view of history aligned with that same evangelical aspiration; and above all protects a cohort of white evangelicals from critique. They show too how the Museum collapses vital conceptual distinctions between its own conservative vision of the Bible and 'The Bible' as a cultural icon. This revelatory volume above all confirms that scripture - for all the claims made for it that it speaks only divine truth - can in the end never be separated from human politics"--
Christianity --- Museum of the Bible. --- Bible --- Evidences, authority, etc. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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« L'Écriture est, en elle-même et par elle-même, si certaine, facile et manifeste qu'elle est sa propre interprète, et éprouve, juge et illumine tout le reste. » Les mots de l'Assertio de Martin Luther (1521) ont résonné, par delà des siècles de controverses théologiques, comme un cri de ralliement de la foi protestante. Mais de quelle facilité et de quelle certitude parle-t-on ? En quoi la Bible, commentée, interprétée, prêchée et disputée pendant des millénaires, pourrait-elle se donner à nous comme un texte clair et manifeste ? Et que signifie cette clarté ? L'étude ici présentée tente de répondre à ces questions en resituant la proclamation de la clarté protestante dans sa conjoncture intellectuelle et historique. Surtout, elle montre comment, dans le contexte de la confessionnalisation des sociétés européennes au XVIe siècle, l'affirmation de cette clarté a pu aboutir à la formalisation protestante d'un véritable point de doctrine ayant suscité, par opposition, la systématisation catholique d'une doctrine de l'obscurité des Écritures. Ce faisant, ce livre se confronte, sous une perspective originale, à certains des plus grands débats de l'historiographie religieuse de la première modernité, du point de vue d'une histoire des doctrines déployée dans ses ramifications tant philosophiques que théologiques ou politiques. Ce livre est issu d'une thèse de doctorat soutenue en 2020 (cotutelle université de Genève/Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, dir. Maria-Cristina Pitassi/Philippe Büttgen).
Bible --- Theology --- Methodology --- History --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Hermeneutics --- Evidences, authority, etc. --- History of doctrines --- Study and teaching --- Protestant Church --- Catholic Church
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Brenneman confronts the contemporary issue of conflicting canons, incorporating insights gained from both literary and biblical disciplines to reach an integrative resolution of authority and canon in a pluralistic context.
Canon (Literature) --- Prophecy. --- Classics, Literary --- Literary canon --- Literary classics --- Best books --- Criticism --- Literature --- Forecasting --- History and criticism --- Bible --- Canon. --- Prophecies. --- Hermeneutics. --- Evidences, authority, etc. --- Prophecy --- 22.011 --- Bijbel: canon --- Biblia
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"A sequel to Gellman's trilogy with Academic Studies Press of constructive Jewish theology, this book presents a new concept of the Jews as God's Chosen People; a reply to an argument for the reliability of Torah history; and provides an approach to the problem of evil for troubled believers and want to be believers, without trying to solve the problem"--
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