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Inerrancy and the Gospels: A God-Centered Approach to the Challenges of Harmonization
Vern S. Poythress
4.25 AVERAGE
2 reviews for:
Inerrancy and the Gospels: A God-Centered Approach to the Challenges of Harmonization
Vern S. Poythress
4.25 AVERAGE
Vern Poythress is a brilliant scholar who not only exhibits excellence in the academy, but also displays a pastoral heart that cares to condense weighty things like harmonizing the gospels to a few hundred pages. Poythress manages to take thought from Augustine, Calvin, and Warfield on inerrancy and harmonization and have it make sense to lay people like me. This book is rich with great content that doesn't suffer from too much overblown academic babble: Poythress is to-the-point, clear, and incredibly helpful.
Quite possible the most satisfying thing about this book is that Poythress clearly loves the God of the Bible and doesn't approach harmonization like an arrogant scholar, but a warm pastor who wants people to wrestle with the text in order that they may be further enriched by its truth.
As a kind of "follow up" to 'Inerrancy & Worldview', I would say that this book is much stronger as the scope of the content (harmonizing the gospels) is much easier to approach than a massive, loaded idea like "worldview." I was greatly blessed by this work and know that it will only further enrich my reading of the Evangelists.
"We ought not to seek assurance in our own independently positioned intellectual or critical powers before we commit ourselves to God's care and submit to his voice. A pursuit of security through autonomous criticism presupposes autonomy. It is already intrinsically in rebellion against what we were created to be, children of our heavenly Father."
Quite possible the most satisfying thing about this book is that Poythress clearly loves the God of the Bible and doesn't approach harmonization like an arrogant scholar, but a warm pastor who wants people to wrestle with the text in order that they may be further enriched by its truth.
As a kind of "follow up" to 'Inerrancy & Worldview', I would say that this book is much stronger as the scope of the content (harmonizing the gospels) is much easier to approach than a massive, loaded idea like "worldview." I was greatly blessed by this work and know that it will only further enrich my reading of the Evangelists.
"We ought not to seek assurance in our own independently positioned intellectual or critical powers before we commit ourselves to God's care and submit to his voice. A pursuit of security through autonomous criticism presupposes autonomy. It is already intrinsically in rebellion against what we were created to be, children of our heavenly Father."
Solid, valuable book, worthwhile resource. Not particularly groundbreaking but thorough and well worked out.