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PRODUCT TITLE BIBLE MADE IMPOSSIBLE/HC
ISBN NUMBER 9781587433030
CATEGORY TYPE WORD STUDY
AUTHOR/EDITOR CHRISTIAN SMITH
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Summary WHY BIBLICISM IS NOT A TRUELY EVANGELICAL READING OF SCRIPTURE
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"Smith asks questions about biblicism that need to be answered. He also begins to articulate an alternative, Christ-centered approach to biblical interpretation that is supremely constructive--a truly evangelical account of scripture."--Douglas A. Campbell, Duke University Divinity School

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 philosophical context. He explains why it is an impossible approach to the Bible as an authority and provides constructive alternative approaches to help evangelicals be more honest and faithful in reading the Bible. Far from challenging the inspiration and authority of Scripture, Smith critiques a particular rendering of it, encouraging evangelicals to seek a more responsible, coherent, and defensible approach to biblical authority.
Contents
Introduction
1. Biblicism and the Problem of Pervasive Interpretive Pluralism
2. The Extent and Source of Pervasive Interpretive Pluralism
3. Some Relevant History, Sociology, and Psychology
4. Subsidiary Problems with Biblicism
5. Toward a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture
6. More Suggestions toward a Post-Biblicist World
7. Even More Suggestions toward an Evangelical Reading of Scripture
Conclusion


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