The Bible in a Disenchanted Age: The Enduring Possibility of Christian Faith

How are we to read and advocate for the centrality of scripture as a trustworthy and unique witness to the relationship between God and humanity in a world skeptical of the idea of God, let alone of Gods revelation in the world or in a text? R. W. L. Moberly answers this question with a number of strategies. Moberly maps these four steps onto the central content chapters: first (chap. 1), the Bible as a privileged witness of the Christian faith through the history of the church; second (chap. 2), the treatment of historical works, which include but are not limited to the Bible, as important and ongoing cultural classics; third (chap. 3), the inherent tendency of human communities to privilege some texts over others through the theory of "plausibility structures"; and fourth (chap. 4), the trustworthy witness of the Bible as Gods revelation. The kind of receptivity Moberly encourages requires a form of "biblical literacy" where readers are guided by a canonical understanding of scripture and a thoughtful reading of the world in (the story), behind (the historical context), and in front of (the receptive communities) the text.