Bible Made Impossible Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture

Name: Bible Made Impossible Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture
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ISBN: 9781587433290

ISBN-10: 158743329X

ISBN-13: 9781587433290

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Authors: Christian Smith

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Biblicism, an approach to the Bible common among some American evangelicals, emphasizes together the Bible's exclusive authority, infallibility, clarity, self-sufficiency, internal consistency, self-evident meaning, and universal applicability. Acclaimed sociologist Christian Smith argues that this approach is misguided and unable to live up to its own claims. If evangelical biblicism worked as its proponents say it should, there would not be the vast variety of interpretive differences that biblicists themselves reach when they actually read and interpret the Bible.Smith describes the assumptions, beliefs, and practices of evangelical biblicism and sets it in historical, sociological, and…

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List price: $22.00
Publisher: Brazos Press
Publication date: 8/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction



The Impossibility of Biblicism



Biblicism and the Problem of Pervasive Interpretive Pluralism



The Extent and Source of Pervasive Interpretive Pluralism



Some Relevant History, Sociology, and Psychology



Subsidiary Problems with Biblicism



Toward a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture



The Christocentric Hermeneutical Key



Accepting Complexity and Ambiguity



Rethinking Human Knowledge, Authority, and Understanding


Conclusion


Afterword


Notes


Index