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In Defence of the Identification: Scripture as Word of God

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Timothy Gorringe
Affiliation:
Wadham CollegeOxford

Extract

In The Bible in the Modern World Professor Barr points out that recent discussion has largely lost interest in the description of the Bible as the ‘Word of God’. He suggests three reasons for this:

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1979

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