God’s Words in Human Words
Do check out Kenton Spark’s lectures:
Session 1: “To Err is Human: A Biblical View of Epistemology” (Thursday 27 September 2007 – 11:30 am).
Evangelical Christians often believe that error is a bad thing, but the biblical view of things is otherwise. Scripture teaches that human error is an inevitable and natural part of normal, healthy living. This observation has profound implications for our epistemology and theology.
Sparks-Epistemology MP3 (7 MB)
Session 2: “God’s Word in Human Words: The Problem and Promise of Modern Biblical Criticism” (Thursday 27 September 2007 – 1:15 pm).
Modern biblical scholars have highlighted features in Scripture that seem incommensurate with the Bible’s divine origins. However, when we understand these features as an affirmation of our humanity and as an expression of theological orthodoxy, we shall find they are wholly suited to a high view of Scripture’s inspiration and authority.
Session 3: “God’s Astronomy: Accommodation, Inspiration,
and the Bible” (Thursday 27 September 2007 – 7:30 pm).Does the Bible get the science right? And if not, what does this mean for Scripture’s authority and inspiration? The Church has long had the theological resources to deal with the apparent difficulty created by conflicts between the Bible and science. Evangelicals have largely forgotten these resources, which we shall try to recover.
Session 4: “The Path of Wisdom: The Church and Biblical Criticism” (Friday 28 September 2007 – 11:10 am).
The biblical critics are right about many things, but this does not mean that we can carelessly bring their insights into church pulpits and Sunday School classrooms. “True facts,” when misunderstood, become false and potentially destructive facts. How can the Church wisely assimilate the insights of biblical criticism without being destroyed by them?
