John Wenham rests the case for biblical authority on Christ's own view of Scripture rather than on external proofs - and asks why Christ's view should be the Christian view. Read more.
Defenses of the Bible usually begin with rational proofs for the historicity and accuracy of its documents. John Wenham starts somewhere else: he places the argument for the authority of Scripture squarely on Jesus. With uncluttered logic and plain prose he marshals the Gospel evidence for Jesus' own view of Scripture - historically accurate, authoritative, the standard for ethics, and the verbally inspired revelation of God.
He then asks why we should listen to Jesus when he makes such claims, and why Christ's view should be the Christian view, before turning to two related problems: which writings actually belong in the Bible, and how reliable the text we now have is. The third edition updates the discussion and engages more recent work. 222 pages, paperback.
