God Sense

Throughout the modern period, history has been the dominant lens through which preachers have viewed the biblical text. The historical-critical method—with its emphasis on the context of a scriptural text's origins—has been the principal, or sole, tool with which preachers have approached the question of the text's meaning. Preachers have been in danger of losing the Bible as revelation and with that losing the rich varieties of God-centered meanings that our ancient forebears understood we...