Me Died Blue
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
What are some of the best books people would recommend on one or both of those two subjects? I already own F. F. Bruce's [i:d405020c4d]The Canon of Scripture[/i:d405020c4d], but have yet to read it.
Books on inerrancy & the canon
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crhoades
Puritan Board Graduate
For some quick overviews...
Greg Bahnsen
The Concept and Importance of Canonicity
http://www.cmfnow.com/articles/pt093.htm
Inductivism, Inerrancy, and Presuppositionalism
http://www.cmfnow.com/articles/pt034.htm
The Inerrancy of the Autographa
http://www.cmfnow.com/articles/pt042.htm
Greg Bahnsen
The Concept and Importance of Canonicity
http://www.cmfnow.com/articles/pt093.htm
Inductivism, Inerrancy, and Presuppositionalism
http://www.cmfnow.com/articles/pt034.htm
The Inerrancy of the Autographa
http://www.cmfnow.com/articles/pt042.htm
Two books on different angles of the question:
[i:9a72344af0]Inspiration and Canonicity of the Scriptures[/i:9a72344af0] by R. Laird Harris. A Press, 1996. 347pp including notes and index. Harris taught at Covenant Theo. Sem. for years. He was still alive and kicking about five years ago in his nineties, I think.
[i:9a72344af0]Biblical Authority: A Critique of the Rogers/McKim Proposal[/i:9a72344af0] by John D. Woodbridge. Zondervan, 1982. Rogers/McKim sought essentially to resurrect the old canard that Warfield and Princeton basically "invented" a new doctrine of inspiration. This book is their epitaph.
[i:9a72344af0]Inspiration and Canonicity of the Scriptures[/i:9a72344af0] by R. Laird Harris. A Press, 1996. 347pp including notes and index. Harris taught at Covenant Theo. Sem. for years. He was still alive and kicking about five years ago in his nineties, I think.
[i:9a72344af0]Biblical Authority: A Critique of the Rogers/McKim Proposal[/i:9a72344af0] by John D. Woodbridge. Zondervan, 1982. Rogers/McKim sought essentially to resurrect the old canard that Warfield and Princeton basically "invented" a new doctrine of inspiration. This book is their epitaph.
I suppose what aspect of the canon you're interested in examining. Along with the other books mentioned, I would recommend the following.
[i:0e0bdfa75e]The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance[/i:0e0bdfa75e] by Bruce M. Metzger
[i:0e0bdfa75e]An Introduction to the Apocrpha[/i:0e0bdfa75e] by Bruce M. Metzger
[i:0e0bdfa75e]The Text and Canon of the New Testament[/i:0e0bdfa75e] by Alexander Souter
[i:0e0bdfa75e]The Canon and Text of the New Testament[/i:0e0bdfa75e] by Caspar Rene Gregory
[i:0e0bdfa75e]Holy Scripture, the Ground and Pillar of Our Faith[/i:0e0bdfa75e], Vol. 2 by William Webster http://www.christiantruth.com/books.html[/quote]
[i:0e0bdfa75e]The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance[/i:0e0bdfa75e] by Bruce M. Metzger
[i:0e0bdfa75e]An Introduction to the Apocrpha[/i:0e0bdfa75e] by Bruce M. Metzger
[i:0e0bdfa75e]The Text and Canon of the New Testament[/i:0e0bdfa75e] by Alexander Souter
[i:0e0bdfa75e]The Canon and Text of the New Testament[/i:0e0bdfa75e] by Caspar Rene Gregory
[i:0e0bdfa75e]Holy Scripture, the Ground and Pillar of Our Faith[/i:0e0bdfa75e], Vol. 2 by William Webster http://www.christiantruth.com/books.html[/quote]
Scott
Puritan Board Graduate
This short book is essential reading on the canon for Reformed:
Herman Ridderbos, Redemptive History and the New Testament Scriptures
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_1/103-1850217-9231838?v=glance&s=books
He approaches the canon from a perspective consistent with presuppositionalism. Many other books by evangelicals will come at it from a Thomistic or rationalistic perspective.
Scott
Herman Ridderbos, Redemptive History and the New Testament Scriptures
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_1/103-1850217-9231838?v=glance&s=books
He approaches the canon from a perspective consistent with presuppositionalism. Many other books by evangelicals will come at it from a Thomistic or rationalistic perspective.
Scott
Me Died Blue
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
I was just looking back over this list, and realized I had never said thanks. So thanks, guys!
RamistThomist
Puritanboard Clerk
JI Packer's Fundamentalism and the Word of God was crucial for me as I was leaving liberalism. Warfield is good. Machen is good. Machen doesn't deal with inerrancy, per se, but with the theological framework of both liberalism and classical Christianity--essential reading. Norman Geisler's Inerrancy, ed. is good.
Me Died Blue
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
Originally posted by ANT
I know the tricks that go on in this board.
Are you sure you are not just trying to up your post count?
...and of course you're totally free from that.
On a serious note, what made me think of this topic again was an essay I'm writing on the subject of "Christian worldview," and I realized how central and foundational to that worldview Scripture and one's view of the nature of its authority are. I have Ridderbos' book, and will probably read it soon, since it is very short. Thanks for recommending it, Scott, and especially for noting that it was consistent with a presuppositional mindset, since that's why I initially chose to buy it. I'm off to re-read Bahnsen's articles at the moment...
doulosChristou
Puritan Board Freshman
Hermeneutics, Authority and Canon, edited by D. A. Carson and J D. Woodbridge, is very good. Particularly edifying is David G. Dunbar's chapter on "The Biblical Canon."
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