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Geisler, Norman L.

Systematic theology : volume one : introduction, Bible / by Norman Geisler. - Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House, c2002. - 627 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [590]-598) and indexes.

Introduction -- God : the metaphysical precondition -- Miracles : the supernatural precondition -- Revelation : the revelational precondition -- Logic : the rational precondition -- Meaning : the semantical precondition -- Truth : the epistemological precondition -- Exclusivism : the oppositional precondition -- Language : the linguistic precondition -- Interpretation : the hermeneutical precondition -- Historiography : the historical precondition -- Method : the methodological precondition -- The origin and inspiration of the Bible -- The divine nature of the Bible -- The human nature of the Bible -- Jesus and the Bible -- Church fathers on the Bible -- The historical church on the Bible -- The history of destructive biblical criticism -- Liberalism on the Bible -- Neo-orthodoxy on the Bible -- Neo-evangelicals on the Bible -- Evangelicals on the Bible -- Fundamentalism on the Bible -- The historicity of the Old Testament -- The historicity of the New Testament -- The inerrancy of the Bible -- The Canonicity of the Bible -- Summary of the evidence for the Bible -- Appendix one: Objections against theistic arguments -- Appendix two: Do historical facts speak for themselves?

ISBN: 0764225510 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 2002000913

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Bible--Introductions.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Theology, Doctrinal

LC Class. No.: BT75.3 / .G45 2002 BT75.3 / .G45 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 230 / G313S