SCRIPTURE AND THE AUTHORITY OF GOD
By N.T. Wright
SPCK. 107 pages
ISBN 0 281 05722 2
‘Writing a book about the Bible is like building a sandcastle in front of the Matterhorn. The best you can hope to do is to catch the eye of those who are looking down instead of up, or those who are so familiar with the skyline that they have stopped noticing its peculiar beauty.’ So begins Tom Wright in the preface to his latest book.
Dr. Wright’s aim is to get people to ‘look up once more and this time with fresh eyes’. This he manages to do most admirably. The book does not directly address the issues of inerrancy and infallibility, which are crucial, but within its own terms is extremely helpful.
With his usual clarity of thought and mastery of expression, Dr. Wright takes his readers on one of the most refreshing and insightful tours of what the Bible itself presents as the relationship between its authority and God’s authority and how that works itself out in the life of the Church.
