How should we read the Bible?
In his introduction to The Bible made impossible (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2011), Christian Smith defines what he calls ‘biblicism’: ‘By “biblicism” I mean a theory about the Bible that emphasizes together its exclusive authority, infallibility, perspicuity, self-sufficiency, internal consistency, self-evident meaning, and universal applicability.’ (There is a short blog post on a related […]