Light of the Word
eBook - ePub

Light of the Word

How Knowing the History of the Bible Illuminates Our Faith

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Light of the Word

How Knowing the History of the Bible Illuminates Our Faith

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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Information

Publisher
IVP
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781514006948

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: Loving God's Word
  6. 1 The Scriptures and Salvation
  7. 2 Old Testament Tradition
  8. 3 A Timeline of the Old Testament
  9. 4 A Close-Up of the Old Testament
  10. 5 Reading Esther: A Case Study
  11. 6 Disputed Books of the Old Testament
  12. 7 The Old Testament Fakes
  13. 8 Miracles
  14. 9 A Close-Up of the New Testament
  15. 10 Ins and Outs of the New Testament
  16. 11 Compiling the New Testament
  17. 12 The Church Fathers
  18. 13 Completing the Canon
  19. 14 Answering Challenges to Scripture
  20. 15 Build on Rock
  21. Acknowledgments
  22. Notes
  23. Further Reading
  24. Praise for Light of the Word
  25. About the Author
  26. More Titles from InterVarsity Press
  27. Copyright