Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 127:507 (Jul 1970)
Article: Book Notices
Author: Anonymous

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Book Notices

The Book That Speaks For Itself. By Robert M. Horn. Chicago: Inter-Varsity Press, 1969, 127 pp. Paper. $1.45.

The ground covered in this little book has been covered many times before. What is new and refreshing is the author’s approach. His work as a pastor and with theological students evidences itself in the way in which he seeks to answer pertinent questions which are being asked by many today. The author not only subscribes to a high view of inspiration for parts of Scripture, but rightfully assigns inerrancy to all of its pronouncements.

Among the twelve helpful chapters is one dealing with the way to approach and interpret Scripture. Concerned laymen will unquestionably be helped by the study of this book.

R. P. Lightner

Revelation And Inspiration. By James Orr. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1969. 224 pp. Paper, $2.95.

The original printing of this reprint was in 1910. For this new edition Addison H. Leitch has written the introduction. In it he reminds the reader of what all students of bibliography know: “James Orr does not support verbal inerrancy, but as P. T. Forsyth once said of himself, he is so close to it that it is hard to see the distinction” (p. xi). Leitch could well have added that Orr also, as a very natural corollary, rejects total inerrancy for those things which the Bible includes from an old genealogy or historical document which was defective. Modern evangelicals who subscribe to an inspired but errant Bible may find a measure of comfort and ammunition from Orr’s inconsistent and unbiblical view of the Bible at this point.

R. P. Lightner

Inspiration And Canonicity Of The Bible. By R. Laird Harris. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1969. 316 pp. Paper, $2.45.

Here is an enlarged and revised paperback edition of the work which first appeared in 1957. Evangelical scholarship is indebted to Harris, Dean of the Faculty of Covenant College and Theological seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, for this fine contribution to the orthodox position of the verbal inspiration of all Scripture. This new edition of Harris’ work brings the treatment up to date. Unfortunately, however, the author does not deal with the current deviation from the total inerrancy of Scripture on the part of some evangelicals who still wish to retain belief in inspiration.

R. P. Lightner

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Christ In Eastern Christian Thought. By John Meyendorff. Washington: Corpus Books. 218 pp. $7.95.

This is a historical study of the development and significance of the study of...

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