A Clear And Present Word: The Clarity of Scripture,9780830826223

A Clear And Present Word: The Clarity of Scripture

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ISBN13: 9780830826223
ISBN10: 083082622X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-07-31
Publisher(s): Ivp Academic
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Summary

By almost any measure, a bold and confident use of the Bible is a hallmark of Christianity. Underlying such use are assumptions about the origin, nature and form of the biblical literature, concerning its authority, diversity and message.

Author Biography

Mark D. Thompson is Academic Dean and lecturer in theology and church history at Moore Theological College, Sydney, Australia

Table of Contents

Series preface 9(2)
Author's preface 11(2)
Abbreviations 13(4)
1 Oh sweet obscurity: The absurdity of claiming clarity today 17(32)
Traditional objections to the doctrine of the clarity of Scripture
19(11)
The contemporary context of this discussion
30(16)
A reason to think again
46(3)
2 The effective communicator: God as the guarantor of scriptural clarity 49(32)
The God of the gospel
55(5)
The purposeful communicator
60(5)
God and human words
65(5)
God and this text
70(8)
The clarity of Scripture and the character of God
78(3)
3 It is not beyond you: The accessible word of the living God 81(30)
The phenomenon of Scripture according to Jesus and the apostles
82(11)
The Old Testament and the clarity of Scripture: The classic texts
93(9)
Clarity hard won: Scripture acknowledges its own difficulty
102(7)
Confidence and concentrated attention: The textures of biblical clarity
109(2)
4 Engaging the hermeneutical challenge 111(32)
Theology and the shape of contemporary hermeneutics
115(5)
Taking Scripture and its readers seriously
120(12)
The theological protest at the contemporary hermeneutical agenda
132(8)
The hermeneutics of a clear text in the hands of a good God
140(3)
5 The sharp double-edged sword: Restating the clarity of Scripture today 143(28)
The classic exposition
143(16)
A doctrine for the times
159(5)
A clear and present word
164(7)
Bibliography 171(18)
Index of authors 189(4)
Index of Scripture references 193

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