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Peter Enns | rethinking biblical christianity...

April 9, 2012 by Peter Enns

David Williams, my friend and campus minister for InterVarsity in a state that is the epicenter of ACC basketball, recently ran–without my realizing it–an amazing series on C. S. Lewis on his blog resurrecting raleigh.

David goes deeper than I do here, and I think you’ll like what he has to say. Here are the links to his four posts.

God’s Word in (Very) Human Words, Parts 1 & 2

Genesis and Myth

Myth, Truth, Fact, and Genesis

Here are some choice Lewis quotes to pique your interest:

We may observe that the teaching of Our Lord Himself, in which there is no imperfection, is not given us in that cut-and-dried, fool-proof, systematic fashion we might have expected or desired.  He wrote no books.  We have only reported sayings, most of them uttered in answer to questions, shaped in some degree by their context.  And when we have collected them all we cannot reduce them to a system….He will not be, in the way we want, “pinned down.”

Speaking of Genesis and myth:

Is your interest sufficiently piqued? Here’s another one.

Everyone knows that Lewis was not a biblical scholar or trained theologian, but he knew ancient literature and he knew myth, which brings into the discussion what is often lacking in evangelical circles when it comes to the proper understanding of Scripture as an ancient text.

I hope you get a chance to read David’s posts and others he writes.

C. S. Lewis and How the Bible Shows God's Humility April 15, 2012
Creating the Bible in Our Image of God (or vice-versa?) Genesis, creation, and two very different portraits of...
Peter Enns "But it's for your own good." C. S.... when God is unfaithful