Iain W. Provan is the E. Marshall Shepherd Professor of Biblical Studies (Old Testament) at Regent College. He has previously taught at King's College London, the University of Wales, and the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Seriously Dangerous Religion: What the Old Testament Really Says and Why it Matters, Convenient Myths: The Axial Age, Dark Green Religion, and the World that Never Was, commentaries on 1 & 2 Kings, Ecclesiastes & Song of Songs, and Lamentations, and co-author (with V. Phillips Long and Tremper Longman III) of A Biblical History of Israel. He is also a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Chicken or Egg? Scripture, Canon, and the Rule of Faith in the Early Church
Speaker(s): Iain Provan
Date: Summer 2016
Length: 1h 13m
Product ID: RGDL4602I
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Description
Old controversies sometimes renew themselves as current ones, and this appears to be true of the sixteenth-century Protestant-Catholic debate about the relationship between Scripture and church. Does Scripture precede the church, and provide the 'rule' against which the teaching of the church is to be measured, or does the church precede Scripture, and provide the only context in which Scripture may rightly be understood? This lecture will explore this issue in the context of significant contemporary debate about it within the contemporary Protestant church in the West.
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