
Light of the Word
How Knowing the History of the Bible Illuminates Our Faith
- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
While Christians generally acknowledge that the Bible is God's Word, many of us lack robust confidence in the reality of its trustworthiness. We may not be sure if we really believe what we read. But the more we understand how Scripture came to be, the more we discover its power and truth.
Historian Susan Lim unpacks how the history of the Bible bolsters our faith and anchors us through the changing tides of time. The story of Scripture, while messy and complicated at times, is also the story of how God shepherded his people throughout the centuries in and through these writings. Lim explains how Christians came to accept certain documents as inspired and not others, and how the books we now call the Bible came to be assembled and canonized as authoritative. The same Spirit of God who oversaw the writing of Scripture continues to be at work actively in us in our receiving and reading of it, to grow us in faith and maturity.
Those of us who confess that Jesus is Lord can also confess with confidence that Scripture is God's Word. As the church through the ages has received and passed down the sacred Scriptures, so too can we receive for ourselves the living Word that God still speaks through today.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Loving God's Word
- 1 The Scriptures and Salvation
- 2 Old Testament Tradition
- 3 A Timeline of the Old Testament
- 4 A Close-Up of the Old Testament
- 5 Reading Esther: A Case Study
- 6 Disputed Books of the Old Testament
- 7 The Old Testament Fakes
- 8 Miracles
- 9 A Close-Up of the New Testament
- 10 Ins and Outs of the New Testament
- 11 Compiling the New Testament
- 12 The Church Fathers
- 13 Completing the Canon
- 14 Answering Challenges to Scripture
- 15 Build on Rock
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Praise for Light of the Word
- About the Author
- More Titles from InterVarsity Press
- Copyright