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"Fake News" Theology
Contributor(s): Sparks, Kenton L. (Author)

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ISBN: 1725270331     ISBN-13: 9781725270336
Publisher: Cascade Books
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General
- Religion | Biblical Studies - Exegesis & Hermeneutics
- Religion | Christian Theology - General
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.70 lbs) 132 pages
 
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No matter what side you're on or how you look at it, we're living in a world that's filled with ""fake news"" and with lots of people who believe it. How do Christians fits into this world? In this book, Kenton Sparks argues that certain approaches to biblical authority, which assume that the Bible is a perfect book, make Christians especially susceptible to the deceptions of ""fake news"" and cause us to embrace false understandings of the Bible and, because of this, about natural science, social science, various academic disciplines, politics, morals, ethics, and loads of other things. The resulting damage to faith and Christian witness is significant. Is there a better way to understand and honor biblical authority? Yes. We must restore God as the final authority over our interpretations of Scripture. The path forward for this theological agenda was modeled by Jesus Christ in his interpretations of Scripture. Whereas his contemporaries often followed the ""letter of the law"" or something akin to it, Jesus taught that love for God and neighbor provided the proper foundation and destination for healthy readings and applications of the Bible. If love required more radical, internal commitments to the law, Jesus demanded this of his audience; where love required that we set aside the law's violent judgments, he pointed his audience in the opposite direction. In modeling this approach to Scripture, Jesus taught ""as one with authority"" and thus showed us that, when we interpret Scripture through the lens of divine love, we give ourselves the best opportunity to read Scripture under the authority of God.
 
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