The BBC seems to have discovered some 15 or 20-year-old academic niche material that was always highly contentious in its field, and has decided to turn it into a television series, beginning tomorrow evening.
But it is in fact necessary to confound Biblical criticism by reference to Chalcedonian orthodoxy and to all that it represents. The Authorship of God’s Written Word is, like the Person of His Incarnate Word, both fully human and fully divine, so that its canonical and ecclesial, allegorical and typological, tropological and moral, anagogical and eschatological senses are integral to its literal (i.e., authorial) sense.
Likewise, just as Jesus of Nazareth must be a factual historical figure, so also the Salvation History recorded in and as Scripture must be no less historically factual than it is doctrinally, morally and eschatologically significant.
Anything else is no less a ‘faith position’, but it is not the ‘faith position’ that defined the Canon in the first place.
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David, I feel that you may enjoy my current Lenten reading, Scott Hahn's "Covenant and Communion - The Bibical Theology of Pope Benedict XVI"; it covers some of the ground that you address here.
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Anthony.
Very many thanks. I am a great admirer of Hahn, and heartily commend his work.
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