Sacred Word, Broken Word: Biblical Authority and the Dark Side of Scripture
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
The Bible is a religious masterpiece, casting a profound vision for the healing of humanity through the power of divine love, grace, and forgiveness. But the Bible also contains “dark texts” that challenge our ethical imagination. How can one book speak of loving our enemies and also speak of slaughtering Canaanites? Why does a book that preaches the equality of all people—male and female, slave and free, Greek and Jew—also include laws that permit God’s people to trade in slaves and to persecute those of a different faiths or ethnicities? In Sacred Word, Broken Word, Kenton Sparks argues that the “dark side” of Scripture is not an illusion. Rather, these dark texts remind us that all human beings, including the biblical authors, stand in need of God’s redemptive solution in Jesus Christ.
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Top Highlights
“This is Christian Practical Realism in a nutshell: God has it perfectly right, while human beings are partially right and partially wrong, but in a way that admits some human perspectives are better or more adequate than others.” (Page 87)
“And where that first-century theology was limited in its vision, so too was the theological vision of Jesus. Orthodoxy only demands that Jesus was sinless, not that his teachings were wholly insulated from the human condition.” (Page 27)
“Paradoxically, I will eventually argue that this critique of Scripture was inspired by Scripture itself.” (Page 11)
“second, Practical Realism does not believe that cultural traditions blind us to the truth” (Page 79)
“the Bible actually stands within the fallen order that we seek to understand” (Page 22)
- Title: Sacred Word, Broken Word: Biblical Authority and the Dark Side of Scripture
- Author: Kenton L. Sparks
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 192
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible › Hermeneutics; Bible › Theology
- ISBNs: 9780802867186, 0802867189
- Resource ID: LLS:SCRDWRDBRKNWRD
- Resource Type: text.monograph.biblical-theology
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:53:50Z