scripture

Cover Story

The Bible plus

The four books of Mormonism

Aug 08, 2012 by Kathleen Flake

The LDS canon's four books carry equal weight of authority. All are read as historical witnesses to God's promise of salvation.

Blogging Toward Sunday

Words in our bones

Nov 15, 2010 by Mary Schertz

Reflecting on the Benedictus gives us an opportunity to reflect on the place of memorization and repetition in our formation as people who read the Bible as if our lives depended on it. Ellen Davis calls reading the Bible as if our lives depended on it confessional reading. She does not mean reading the Bible in light of a denominational confession. She means reading the Bible as an "indispensible word."

Living by the Word

The word made rock

Matthew 7:21-29

May 17, 2005 by Talitha Arnold

Be like the wise man who built his house on the rock.

In Papago Park, a preserve near the center of Phoenix, two small rock mountains rise up from the desert. One of them, Garden Butte, is 1.6 billion years old. The other, about half a mile away, is a youngster at only 17 million years old.

Faith Matters

Imagining scripture

A rich reservoir of ancient and contemporary conversation partners
Jun 19, 2002 by L. Gregory Jones
It seems to me a wonderful irony that Christians in America are preoccupied with debates about biblical authority just when all parties to the debates are less knowledgeable about the content of scripture than many of our predecessors were.
Books

Isaiah (Old Testament Library)

Brevard S. Childs

Canon fire

Dec 05, 2001 reviewed by Walter Brueggemann

Since the publication of his Biblical Theology in Crisis in 1970, Brevard Childs (recently retired from Yale Divinity School) has pursued a single-minded interpretive agenda with passion and imagination: that the legitimate interpretation of the Bible is as the scripture of the church.