The Bible in Modern Culture: Theology and Historical-Critical Method from Spinoza to Kasemann

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The Bible in Modern Culture: Theology and Historical-Critical Method from Spinoza to Kasemann, by Roy A. Harrisville and Walter Sundberg. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1995. 282 pp. $20.00 (paper). ISBN 0-8028-0873-5.

THIS BOOK is preeminently a survey of modern historical-critical study of the it Bible. After a review of the precritical way in which the Reformers read the Bible, there is a chapter-by-chapter discussion of major figures selected as representative proponents of such diverse approaches to the Bible as those associated with rationalism, liberalism, idealism, salvation history, historicism, fundamentalism, and the theology of the cross.

If the plan of this book is …