Synopses & Reviews
This stand-alone, in-depth reference work is the culmination of the author??'s thirty-plus years of study, teaching, and research. The extensive Part One, Introduction???or preconditions???sets this work apart from other systematic theologies available today. Here Geisler examines the realities of the Christian faith including the existence of God, inescapability of truth, the nature of revelation, and guidelines for interpretation. Part Two, Bible, presents the origin of the Scripture, its inspiration, inerrancy, and much more.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. [590]-598) and indexes.
Table of Contents
Introduction -- God : the metaphysical precondition -- Miracles : the supernatural precondition -- Revelation : the revelational precondition -- Logic : the rational precondition -- Meaning : the semantical precondition -- Truth : the epistemological precondition -- Exclusivism : the oppositional precondition -- Language : the linguistic precondition -- Interpretation : the hermeneutical precondition -- Historiography : the historical precondition -- Method : the methodological precondition -- The origin and inspiration of the Bible -- The divine nature of the Bible -- The human nature of the Bible -- Jesus and the Bible -- Church fathers on the Bible -- The historical church on the Bible -- The history of destructive biblical criticism -- Liberalism on the Bible -- Neo-orthodoxy on the Bible -- Neo-evangelicals on the Bible -- Evangelicals on the Bible -- Fundamentalism on the Bible -- The historicity of the Old Testament -- The historicity of the New Testament -- The inerrancy of the Bible -- The Canonicity of the Bible -- Summary of the evidence for the Bible -- Appendix one: Objections against theistic arguments -- Appendix two: Do historical facts speak for themselves?