Standing on the Rock:
Biblical authority in a secular age
By James Montgomery Boice. Hodder & Stoughton. 199 pages. £6.99
ISBN 0 340 67142 4
Most of this book was first published under the same title in 1984, when Dr. Boice was deeply involved in the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy. It consists of popular lectures given across the States.
It was republished in 1994 - slightly revised and with the significant addition of a chapter on the sufficiency of Scripture (the sermon preached by Boice on his 25th anniversary as Senior Pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia). In the se intervening ten years, he had become alarmed that, though the inerrancy of the Bible might be accepted, its authority was often avoided by evangelicals who failed to accept its sufficiency, and were increasingly adding other direct words from God alongside and even contradictory to Scripture. A British edition has now been published.
