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Book Review: Is Scripture Still Holy? Coming of Age with the New Testament

Book Review: Is Scripture Still Holy? Coming of Age with the New Testament ATR/97.1 Book Reviews 149 Is Scripture Still Holy? Coming of Age with the New Testament. By A. E. Harvey. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing, 2012. vii + 151 pp. $22.00 (paper). With a winsome and yet unflinching style, Harvey’s Is Scripture Still Holy? delves into New Testament hermeneutical questions that challenge the trustworthiness of the biblical text as an acceptable foundation for con- temporary Christian living. Assuming his readers’ general familiarity with textual scholarship, Harvey foregoes customary academic explanations and notations in order to pointedly consider the driving question of his work: Can the New Testament still be trusted as a, if not the, authoritative source and reliable moral compass for Christian ethics today? Harvey immediately plunges into central hermeneutical questions and implications of New Testament textual scholarship. “If people of equally pro- found faith rely on other ‘scriptures’ in the same way that Jews and Christians rely on the Bible, the question has to be asked whether any scripture can claim unique authority” (p. 2). He fairly accounts for questions about the reverential esteem historically afforded to the Bible and the subsequent au- thority it holds “over adherents of the faith” and whether it should “deserve respect from http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

Book Review: Is Scripture Still Holy? Coming of Age with the New Testament

Schoon, Christopher J.
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 97 (1): 1 – Aug 16, 2021
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ATR/97.1 Book Reviews 149 Is Scripture Still Holy? Coming of Age with the New Testament. By A. E. Harvey. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing, 2012. vii + 151 pp. $22.00 (paper). With a winsome and yet unflinching style, Harvey’s Is Scripture Still Holy? delves into New Testament hermeneutical questions that challenge the trustworthiness of the biblical text as an acceptable foundation for con- temporary Christian living. Assuming his readers’ general familiarity with textual scholarship, Harvey foregoes customary academic explanations and notations in order to pointedly consider the driving question of his work: Can the New Testament still be trusted as a, if not the, authoritative source and reliable moral compass for Christian ethics today? Harvey immediately plunges into central hermeneutical questions and implications of New Testament textual scholarship. “If people of equally pro- found faith rely on other ‘scriptures’ in the same way that Jews and Christians rely on the Bible, the question has to be asked whether any scripture can claim unique authority” (p. 2). He fairly accounts for questions about the reverential esteem historically afforded to the Bible and the subsequent au- thority it holds “over adherents of the faith” and whether it should “deserve respect from

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