Robert K. Johnston 
The Use of the Bible in Theology/Evangelical Options [PDF ebook] 

A stimulating dialogue among evangelicals that clarifies how major evangelical theologians currently conceive the practice of theology with regard to the Bible.

Contributors:

-Robert K. Johnston, editor
-Donald Bloesch
-Donald Dayton
-William A. Dyrness
-Gabriel Fackre
-James I. Packer
-Clark H. Pinnock
-Russell P. Spittler
-Robert Webber
-David F. Wells
-John Yoder

A summary of the positions:

I. Johnston (Free Church): Introduction: Unity and Diversity in Evangelical Theology – introduces the theme, defines evangelicalism and evangelical theology

II. Pinnock (Baptist): How I Use the Bible in Doing Theology – hermeneutical theology; only what is revelation (only Scripture) can be made a matter of theological truth

III. Packer (Anglican): In Quest of Canonical Interpretation – texts must be understood in their human context

IV. Spittler (Pentecostal): Scripture and the Theological Enterprise: View from a Big Canoe – exegetical theology

V. Bloesch (Reformed): A Christological Hermeneutic: Crisis and Conflict in Hermeneutics – goes beyond the literal sense of the text to its larger significance

VI. Yoder (Mennonite): The Use of the Bible in Theology – theology as an activity meant to correct and renew the church

VII. Dayton (Wesleyan): The Use of Scripture in the Wesleyan Tradition – theology rooted in a recovery of Wesleyan truth

VIII. Webber (Anglican): An Evangelical and Catholic Methodology – theology is an activity from out of the church’s tradition; must study the church father’s dogmatic development

IX. Dyrness (Reformed): How Does the Bible Function in the Christian Life? – Scripture as a two-directional contextual hermeneutic

X. Wells (Congregational): The Nature and Function of Theology – decoding/encoding; the significance of the ‘sola scriptura’ principle

XI. Fackre (Congregational): The Use of Scripture in My Work in Systematics – full-orbed approach; world, church, Scripture, and the Gospel core all have their function

Circa l’autore

Robert K. Johnston (Ph D, Duke University) is professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is the author or editor of over twelve books, including Reel Spirituality and Finding God in the Movies. A past president of the American Theological Society and the recipient of two major research grants from the Luce Foundation, Johnston is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Covenant Church.