Robert Jenson on the Authority of Scripture in Preaching
Posted on 09 August 2009
[We agree] that the Bible is somehow authoritative. But how does that work? [....] When we hear preaching in the broadest sense, that is to say, when the church’s servants call us verbally to faith and obedience, do we observe the speaker struggling to say what the Bible says? On more formal occasions, do we observe the preacher or teacher struggling somehow to say what a specific text says? If we do, we then and there experience the authority of Scripture. It is not a question of the preacher’s or teacher’s success in saying what the Scripture says; the observable effort is by itself the necessary hermeneutical principle.
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