In this important and wide-ranging book, Craig Blomberg, distinguished professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary, offers an updated evangelical defense of the authority and reliability of the Scriptures. Given Blomberg’s numerous publications on the historical reliability of the Gospels, he’s well positioned academically to write such a book interacting with the latest challenges of modern scholarship.
While one might wonder whether we need another evangelical work on the authority of Scripture, it’s the structure of Can We Still Believe the Bible?: An Evangelical Engagement with Contemporary Questions that makes it unique. Rather than another general introduction to the authority of the Bible, along with requisite theological discussions of terminology and exegesis of biblical passages, each of this volume’s chapters narrowly addresses a distinct objection/problem raised in recent years by scholars. This allows Blomberg to cut through the massive discussions regarding the authority of Scripture and just focus on the latest issues arising out of the academy (though many of them are not really new).
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