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001			ocn815626004
003			OCoLC
005			20251028093322.0
008			121101s2012 miu b 001 0 eng d
035			_a(Sirsi) i9781587433030
040			_aVLB _cVLB _dBDX _dYDXCP _dDUNPL _dOCLCF _dVF$
019			_a864837757
020			_a9781587433030 (cloth)
020			_a1587433036 (cloth)
020			_a9781587433290 (pbk.)
020			_a158743329X (pbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)815626004 _z(OCoLC)864837757
090			_aBS 480 _b.S569 2012
049			_aVF$A
100	1		_aSmith, Christian, _d1960-
245	1	4	_aThe Bible made impossible : _bwhy biblicism is not a truly evangelical reading of Scripture / _cChristian Smith.
260			_aGrand Rapids, Mich. : _bBrazos Press, _cc2012.
300			_axiv, 240 p. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-231) and index.
505	0		_aBiblicism and the problem of pervasive interpretive pluralism -- The extent and source of pervasive interpretive pluralism -- Some relevant history, sociology, and psychology -- Subsidiary problems with biblicism -- The Christocentric hermeneutical key -- Accepting complexity and ambiguity -- Rethinking human knowledge, authority, and understanding.
520			_aBiblicism, an approach to the Bible common among some American evangelicals, emphasizes together the Bible's exclusive authority, infallibility, clarity, self-sufficiency, internal consistency, self-evident meaning, and universal applicability. Sociologist Christian Smith argues that this approach is misguided and unable to live up to its own claims. If evangelical biblicism worked as its proponents say it should, there would not be the vast variety of interpretive differences that biblicists themselves reach when they actually read and interpret the Bible. Smith describes the assumptions, beliefs, and practices of evangelical biblicism and sets it in historical, sociological, and philosophical context. He explains why it is an impossible approach to the Bible as an authority and provides constructive alternative approaches to help evangelicals be more honest and faithful in reading the Bible.
630	0	0	_aBible _xEvidences, authority, etc.
630	0	0	_aBible _xHermeneutics.
650		0	_aEvangelicalism.
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