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The Heresy of Infallibility
FREDERICK J. GAISER
(see full text of essay under “Editorial”)
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And what then about
Scripture? Shall we have a “higher” doctrine of Scripture than we have of
Christ, accepting the human fallibility of Jesus but not of Holy Scripture?
That would seem remarkably odd, and would, of course, partake of the docetic heresy: Scripture only seems to have a human
element, that is, human authors subject to human limitations; it (unlike
Jesus!) is solely divine.
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The 2005–2006 Word & World Lecture
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“Today this word is fulfilled in your hearing”: A Scriptural
Hermeneutic of Biblical Authority
GAIL R. O’DAY
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Scripture is not a repository of authority once fixed
in the past, but authority and life are generated in the present as Scripture
is proclaimed and heard.
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Articles
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The Authority of the Bible and Churchly Debates
regarding Sexuality
TERENCE E.
FRETHEIM
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A “high” or “low” view of biblical authority does not
accurately predict an interpreter’s position in churchly debates on
sexuality. Neither does the use of a particular exegetical method. Our
differences seem based rather in the deep personal convictions we bring to
the texts.
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Literary Competence and Biblical Authority
IAIN PROVAN
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If we care greatly about the Bible’s authority, we must
also care greatly about the Bible’s proper meaning. Appropriate authority is
dependent upon competent reading.
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The Saint John’s Bible:
Biblical Authority within the Illuminated Word
MICHAEL PATELLA
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The Saint John’s
Bible, the first handwritten and illuminated Bible in over five hundred
years, proclaims the biblical message through the text itself and also
through artistic interpretation that invites readers and viewers to heed the
word of God (and experience its authority) in different ways.
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The Septuagint in the Life of the Early Church
LOIS FARAG
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Writers of the New Testament and early church
considered the Septuagint translation inspired, including those books now
regarded as apocryphal by most Protestants.
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The Word Made Words: A Lutheran Perspective on the
Authority and Use of the Scriptures
KATHRYN A. KLEINHANS
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The Scriptures and the Lutheran Confessions link biblical authority to
the immediate purpose of shaping Christian life and teaching and to the
ultimate purpose of salvation through Christ. The Bible is the word of God
in, with, and under human words, “the swaddling cloths and the manger in
which Christ lies.”
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Resources
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Texts in
Context: A Piece of Scripture on Part of the Bible: Listening to Romans
15:1–6
DAVID E. FREDRICKSON
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We think about the Bible best not in abstraction but by looking at
particular texts. In Romans 15, Paul, too, looks at a text (Psalm 69) to
think about the nature and authority of Scripture.
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“God is a God who bears”: Bonhoeffer
for a Flat World
GARY M. SIMPSON
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This is one of a series of articles in Word & World commemorating the 100th birthday of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer learned
in his own time of crisis that “only the suffering God can help.” As God
bears us in Christ, we are given the possibility of bearing the burdens of
our brothers and sisters.
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The Letter of James and the Season of
Advent: Common Themes
MARK F. WHITTERS
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Common themes of pilgrimage, prophecy, and piety in the
letter of James and the season of Advent make the book a valuable source of
preaching and meditation in our preparation for Christmas.
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Face to Face: A Canon within the Canon?
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Yes: Proclaim
Christ
MICHAEL ROGNESS
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No: Proclaim the
Whole Counsel of God
CAROL ANTABLIN MILES
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Reviews
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Reconstructing Old Testament Theology: After the
Collapse of History, by Leo G.
Perdue
MELINDA
L. THOMPSON
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Crying for Justice: What the Psalms Teach Us about
Mercy and Vengeance in an Age of Terrorism, by John N. Day
WALTER C. BOUZARD
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A New Perspective on
Jesus: What the Quest for the Historical Jesus Missed, by James D. G.
Dunn
JAMES R. WILSON
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The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and
Earth, by Wendy Farley
RON OLSON
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The New Westminster Dictionary of Christian
Spirituality, ed. by Philip Sheldrake
LAURA J. THELANDER
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In the Context of Unity: A History of the Development
of Lutheran Book of Worship, by
Ralph W. Quere
MONS A. TEIG
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Let the People Sing: Hymn Tunes in Perspective, by Paul Westermeyer
DANIEL
J. GRIMMINGER
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The Teaching Ministry of Congregations, by Richard Robert Osmer
ANDREW
ROOT
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Blessed with Tourists, by Thomas S. Bremer
CLINT
SCHNEKLOTH
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The Bonhoeffer Legacy:
Post-Holocaust Perspectives, by
Stephen R. Haynes
JOHN
W. MATTHEWS
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Index to Volume 26 (2006)
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