The Bible’s central message is that human history is a record of man’s encounter with God.
But with this central message comes a mystery: after two thousand years and more, how can we know what is factual history and what is theological interpretation?
This book explains how scholars, historians and theologians have looked below the surface narratives in an attempt to find spiritual truth.
This is a view of the Bible for the modern world, a path towards living with mystery.
Illustrated throughout with images of biblical scenes by many artists.
The Bible: Message and Mystery
The sacred word of God, or a collection picturesque myths? The revelation of the spiritual reality which governs human life, or a set of primitive beliefs from the remote past? Is the Bible any of these things or none? How can we understand the in today’s secular world? Is there a middle way between a belief in the Bible’s absolute truth, and a total rejection of it? This book is written as an exploration in search of that middle way, and to show that the Bible not belong merely to the past, because, for all its difficulties, it contains a profound stratum of truth about our world and about ourselves. Brief, clear and thought-provoking, this book will prompt many people to think again about the Bible and its enduring relevance to the modern world.
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