Jesus Is Lord: An Introduction to the New Testament (Second Edition)

By: Kenneth Schenck

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Synopsis: This book has arisen from a number of concerns. Perhaps the greatest is the incredible gap that often exists between the academy and the pew. The developments and agreements that are common knowledge among scholars often take decades to filter down to the layperson. Sometimes by then the scholars have even changed their minds! Even worse is setting up our youth for faith crises because we stake Christianity on something inappropriate, like a particular version of the Bible or on the possibility of harmonizing the gospels. How often we forget that the living, exalted Christ stands at the heart of the matter. It is to Him that the Bible points! This book shows that we too often have let the skeptic set the terms of debate over the Bible. When we let the Bible's world set its own terms, many of these "problems" disappear.