Thread Summary: The authority of Scripture

The following is a summary of my posts dealing with the first of Childs' so-called "constitutive features of Christian exegesis":

1. Scripture as "witness" and the rule of faith
2. The function of Scripture
3. The dynamic of Scripture
4. The complexity of "canon"
5. Politics and the religious role of canon
6. The Writing of Scripture
7. Historical criticism and the reading of scripture
8. The exegetical obligations of the redeemed
9. The difference between Scripture and canon
10. The nature of the substance of the Bible
11. Clarifying the Bible's "subject matter"