How the Bible Actually Works
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Bible scholar Peter Enns explains that the Bible is not an instruction manual or rule book but a powerful learning tool for cultivating God's wisdom.
Peter Enns is een professor in de bijbelwetenschappen die onderzoekt hoe bijbelteksten zijn ontstaan en hoe ze vandaag de dag worden begrepen. Zijn werk duikt in de complexe relaties tussen geloof, wetenschap en geschiedenis, en zoekt naar nieuwe perspectieven op traditionele leerstellingen. Enns schrijft toegankelijk, met als doel lezers te helpen de Bijbel en zijn plaats in de moderne wereld beter te begrijpen. Zijn doel is om diepere reflectie op heilige geschriften en hun interpretatie te bevorderen.






Bible scholar Peter Enns explains that the Bible is not an instruction manual or rule book but a powerful learning tool for cultivating God's wisdom.
"The author of How the Bible Actually Works and The Bible Tells Me So explains how our model of God and faith must evolve as our understanding of the world deepens--just as the Bible describes it should"--
Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me So Peter Enns explains how Christians mistake 'certainty' and 'correct belief' for faith when what God really desires is trust and intimacy.
How can an evangelical view of Scripture be reconciled with modern biblical scholarship? In this book Peter Enns, an expert in biblical interpretation, addresses Old Testament phenomena that challenge traditional evangelical perspectives on Scripture. He then suggests a way forward, proposing an incarnational model of biblical inspiration that takes seriously both the divine and the human aspects of Scripture. This tenth anniversary edition has an updated bibliography and includes a substantive postscript that reflects on the reception of the first edition.
Bible scholar Peter Enns recounts his spiritual odyssey: how he came to see beyond restrictive doctrine and learned to embrace God's Word as it is actually written.
The widely-held evolutionary view of beginnings doesn't allow for a historical Adam. This book helps Christians reconcile the teachings of the Bible and evolution.