5/26/2023 0 Comments Bible analyzer 531![]() ![]() Our argument will suggest that viewing Scripture as the documentary mode of God’s covenant administration poses problems for three key areas of Barth’s view of Scripture: the category of ‘witness’, his understanding of inspiration, and his concept of an errant and theologically contradictory biblical text. As a way of engaging with current issues we will bring this covenantal model into dialogue with Karl Barth’s doctrine of Scripture, as it can be argued that Barth offers one of the more profound attempts to expose the relationship between revelation and the Bible. For the exegetical approach to Scripture we will not simply be interested in the minutiae of defining ‘inspiration’, but rather will seek to provide a broader perspective: we shall suggest that Scripture presents itself to us as a covenant document and that this is the overall framework within which both exegetical and theological claims should be heard. We shall seek to bring an exegetical understanding of what Scripture actually is to some of the more pressing contemporary questions about revelation and its relationship to the Bible. The aim in this article is to attempt an account of this relation and, in so doing, to suggest some avenues that could be explored fruitfully and further developed in a contemporary doctrine of Scripture. Is it necessary to offer a ‘model for Scripture’ separate from any of those offered by Dulles for revelation, or should Scripture take its place in one, some, or all of the models? Is the Bible itself revelation? What might it mean to formulate a doctrine of Scripture alongside a doctrine of revelation? Kevin Vanhoozer states the critical theological question: ‘A doctrine of Scripture tries to give account of the relation of the words to the Word and of how this relation may legitimately be said to be “of God.” ’ 2 What is agreed, however, is that these models of revelation clearly compete with each other at certain key tension points and the matter is further complicated when the question of the Bible and its relationship to revelation is introduced. Others insist on the necessity for one model to stand alone. 1 Some theologians refuse to see these as exclusive alternatives and seek mediating positions. Avery Dulles outlines five different models of the doctrine of revelation in theological thought: Revelation as Doctrine, as History, as Inner Experience, as Dialectical Presence and as Inner Awareness. ![]()
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