A Critique of Evangelical Biblicism

A Critique of Evangelical Biblicism

Christian Smith, The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism is not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture, (Brazos, 2011)

“Biblicism, an approach to the Bible common among some American evangelicals, emphasizes together the Bible’s exclusive authority, infallibility, clarity, self-sufficiency, internal consistency, self-evident meaning, and universal applicability.”

This book critiques that perspective.

A review by Craig Blomberg can be found here.


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