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Article: The state of the Bible in the twenty-first century.
- Article from:
- Currents in Theology and Mission
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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Lutherans are not the only Christians who are celebrating, worrying about, and trying to attend to the role of the Bible in the life of the Christian church. I just returned from the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion, where some 8,000+ scholars listened to or read papers that not only reached back to what the Bible meant but in many cases also reached forward to what the Bible might mean for theology, ethics, and life in the church (and synagogue) today.
The Hein Fry lectures at the eight ELCA seminaries in 2006 were delivered by two outstanding New Testament scholars, and Currents is pleased once more to ...