Suggestions For Further Reading
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
(a) Some classical Anglican statements:
‘A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture’ in The Homilies, Book I (1547); ‘An Information for them which take Offence at certain places of the Holy Scripture’ in The Homilies, Book II (1571).
Thomas Cranmer: ‘A Prologue or Preface ... (to the Bible)’ (1540) in Remains and Letters (Parker Society: Cambridge, 1846), pp. 118-125.
William Goode: The Divine Rule of Faith and Practice, especially Chapter XI, ‘The Doctrine of the Church of England and her principal Divines on the subject of this work’ (London, 2 vols., 1842).
Richard Hooker: Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, especially Books I. xiii-xxiv, V. xx-xxii (I-IV, 1594; V, 1597). Several editions printed in the last century at Oxford.
John Jewel: A Treatise of the Holy Scriptures (preached, 1570; printed, 1582) in Works (Parker Society: Cambridge, 1850), Vol. IV, pp. 1161-1188.
William Whitaker: A Disputation on Holy Scripture against the Papists (1588) (Parker Society: Cambridge, 1849).
Compare also:
John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion, especially Books I. vi-x, IV. viii-ix (1559; English translations available by H. Beveridge and J. T. McNeill).
George H. Tavard: Holy Writ or Holy Church (London: Burns &C Oates, 1959). A Roman discussion applauding some Caroline divines.
(b) Modern views:
(i) Surveys from various standpoints:
Raymond Abba: The Nature and Authority of the Bible (London: James Clarke, 1958).
John Baillie: The Idea of Revelation in Recent Thought (London: OUP, 1956).
J. Barr: The Bible in the Modern World (London: SCM, 1973)·
H. D. McDonald: Ideas of Revelation, an historical study 1700-1860 (London: Macmillan, 1959); Theories of Revelation, an historical study 1860-1960 (London: Allen &c Unwin, 1963).
ed. J. W. Montgomery: God's Inerrant Word (Minneapolis: Bethany, 1974).
A. Richardson: The Bible in the Age of Science (London: SCM, 1961).
J. D. Smart: The Interpretation of Scripture (London: SCM, 1961).
(ii) Individual statements:
Karl Barth: Church Dogmatics Ι/ι, I/2, £The Doctrine of the Word of God’ (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1936, 1956). See also K. Runia: Karl Barth's Doctrine of Holy Scripture (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1962).
Emil Brunner: Revelation and Reason (London: SCM, 1947). See also P. K. Jewett: Emil Brunner's Concept of Revelation (London: James Clarke, 1954).
Rudolf Bultmann: ‘The Concept of Revelation in the New Testament’ in Existence and Faith (writings by Bultmann, selected, translated, and introduced by S. M. Ogden) (London: SCM, 1961), pp. 58-91.
C. H. Dodd: The Authority of the Bible (London: Nisbet, 1929, Collins, i960). Liberal Protestant.
C. Gore: The Holy Spirit and the Church (London: John Murray, 1924). Liberal catholic.
Gabriel Hebert: The Authority of the Old Testament (London:
Faber, 1947); The Bible from Within (London: OUP, 1950). The ‘biblical theology5 approach.
(c) Revelation and Inspiration:
G. C. Berkouwer: General Revelation (Grand Rapids: Eerd-mans, 1955); Holy Scripture (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975).
ed. C. F. H. Henry: Revelation and the Bible (London: IVP, 1959)·
A. Kuyper: Principles of Sacred Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1954). A work of genius.
J. Orr: Revelation and Inspiration (London: Duckworth, 1910).
H. Wheeler Robinson: Inspiration and Revelation in the Old Testament (London: OUP, 1946).
B. Vawter: Biblical Inspiration (London: Hutchinson, 1972). Roman Catholic.
B. B. Warfield: The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible (Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, and London: Marshall, Morgan &c Scott, 1951).
Noel Weeks: The Sufficiency of Scripture (London: Banner of Truth, 1988).
E. J. Young: Thy Word is Truth (London: Banner of Truth, 1963).
(d) The Canon of Scripture:
F. F. Bruce: The Canon of Scripture (Leicester: IVP, 1988). R. T. Beckwith: The Old Testament Canon of the New
Testament Church (London: SPCK, 1990). Technical. Bruce Metzger: The Canon of the New Testament (Oxford: OUP, 1987).
(e) Biblical Authority:
ed. J. M. Boice: The Foundation of Biblical Authority (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1978).
N. Geldenhuys: Supreme Authority (London: Marshall, Morgan &c Scott, 1953).
J. I. Packer: 'Fundamentalism' and the Word of God (London: IVP, 1958).
B. Ramm: The Witness of the Spirit (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1959)·
Works by Warfield, Kuyper, Hooker, Goode, as cited above.
(f) Biblical Interpretation and Study: Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart: How To Read the Bible for all its Worth (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1982).
ed. J. B. Job: Studying God's Word (London: IVP, 1972).
ed. I. H. Marshall: New Testament Interpretation (Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1977). Technical.
Grant Osborne: The Hermeneutical Spiral (Downers Grove: IVP, 1992). Exhaustive.
A. W. Pink: Profiting from the Word (London: Banner of Truth, 1970). For self-examination.
R. C. Sproul: Knowing Scripture (Downers Grove: IVP, 1977). An excellent introduction.
A. M. Stibbs: rev. D. & G. Wenham, Understanding God's Word (London: IVP, 1976). Another excellent primer.
A. C. Thistleton: New Horizons in Hermeneutics (London: Marshall Pickering, 1992). Technical.