Amy Orr-Ewing

Four Questions:
1. Isn't it all just a matter of interpretation?
2. How was the Canon recognized?
3. Are the manuscripts reliable?
4. Is the content of the Bible reliable? (A) The question of miracles and the supernatural; (B) The question of intentional deception; (C) The question of internal coherency and contradiction; (D) The question of historical corroboration.

Quote (Amy Orr-Ewing): "The Scriptures do stay up to the most rigorous and difficult questioning and scrutiny."
Quote (Roland Barthes): "...since to refuse meaning is, in the end, to refuse God."
Quote (Frederich Nietzsche): "We cannot get rid of God until we get rid of grammar."
Quote (Amy Orr-Ewing): "In telling us that word have no meaning, the postmodernist expects us to understand the meaning of their words -- an inherent contradiction."
Quote (Amy Orr-Ewing): "The very fact of language itself points to the existence of God."
Quote (John Stott): "If anything is clear from the Gospels and the Acts it is that the apostles were sincere. They may have been deceived, if you like, but they were not deceivers. Hypocrites and martyrs are not made of the same stuff."… (mehr)

This book addresses ten common questions concerning the Bible that the author has been asked by non-Christians.

As would be expected from the title, the reliability of the Bible is discussed at length, but it also deals with less obvious questions such as those about sex, sexuality and war. These chapters were probably my favourite.

I liked the highly intellectual but readable style (post-modernism never seemed so easy to understand!)

The only criticism that I have was that I already knew much of the material, but as the intended audience was those with no or little knowledge about the Bible that's fine!… (mehr)