IS THE BIBLE TRUE?
By Jeffery L. Sheler
HarperCollins. £9.99. 380 pages
ISBN 00 710424 3
The author is an American journalist rather than a scholar and he sets out to answer the question: 'What are we to make of the Bible in these modern times?
He writes for the ordinary reader who may or may not be a person of faith. Taking in a broad sweep of scholarly opinion, his conclusion falls short of a ringing affirmation of Scripture as the infallible Word of God (only the Holy Spirit can bring such a conviction), but his book does argue cogently for the basic reliability of the Bible.
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