Saturday, September 05, 2009

John Frame on The Doctrine of Scripture

I've got to get on with my sermon prep. now, but I want to come back to these John Frame goodies on Scripture:

Four Favorites on the Doctrine of Scripture - a very brief reccomendation of B. B. Warfield, The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible (new edition: Kessinger Publishing, 2008) virtually the same as Revelation and Inspiration (Baker, 2000); Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, volume one of four, on “Prolegomena.” English translation (Baker, 2003); Meredith G. Kline, The Structure of Biblical Authority (Eerdmans, 1972); Ned Stonehouse and Paul Woolley, eds., The Infallible Word (P&R, 2003).

Tim Ward in Words of Life was also especially enthusiastic about Bavinck's doctrine of Scripture.

Frame says: "Bavinck’s theology is the most important work of Reformed systematic theology in the past century. The section on Scripture is marvelously comprehensive and nuanced. In my judgment, there is no difference between his position and that of Warfield, but his vocabulary and emphasis are different. He and Warfield give us “two witnesses,” coming from different cultures, testifying to the truth of Scripture as God’s word. "

Frame calls Kline's book " the most important breakthrough in the doctrine of Scripture since Warfield".


Review of Andrew McGowan's The Divine Spiration of Scripture - useful stuff on Inerrancy


Review of Peter Enns' Inspiration and Incarnation


Review of N. T. Wright, The Last Word = Scripture and the Authority of God

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