TY - BOOK AU - Rogers, Jack, AU - McKim, Donald K. TI - The authority and interpretation of the Bible : : an historical approach SN - 006066696 AV - BS500 .R64 1979 PY - 1979/// CY - San Francisco : PB - Harper & Row KW - Bible KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History. KW - Evidences, authority, etc. KW - History. N1 - pt. 1 Classical roots: developing understandings of the foundation, form, and function of Scripture -- Common theological foundations in the early church and the Middle Ages -- Concentration on the Bible's saving function during the Reformation -- Concern for literary form in the post-Reformation period -- Shifts from concentration on function to the concern for form in Great Britain -- pt. 2 Contemporary response: Reformed scholasticism in America and the recovery of alternatives in the Reformation tradition -- The development of Reformed scholasticism in America -- The defense of Reformed scholasticism in America -- Evangelical reactions to Reformed scholasticism -- Recent efforts to recover the Reformed tradition -- Conclusions: recovering the foundations of the central Christian tradition ER -