The Bible in Human Transformation: Toward a New Paradigm in Bible Study

by Walter Wink

Book Overview

Historical biblical criticism is bankrupt. That startling affirmation began The Bible in Human Transformation when it first appeared in 1975. Wink asserts that despite the valuable contributions of the historical-critical method, we have reached the point where this method is incapable of allowing Scripture to evoke personal and social transformation today. More than thirty years later, Wink now looks back in a new preface over the more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800696336
• ISBN13: 9780800696337
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

DYNAMITE!

This little book is dynamite! What a great way to "get into" Bible study. Written by a New Testament scholar it's an indictment of "scientific historical criticism" of the Bible (what they do in universities!) and an attempt to open up the Bible to laypersons and the church, that they might be transformed by the living Word of God. Highly recommended.