The Marks of Scripture: Rethinking the Nature of the Bible

This volume written by a theologian and a biblical scholar offers a fresh model for understanding Scripture as God's Word. The authors work out the four Nicene marks of the church--one, holy, catholic, and apostolic--as marks of Scripture, offering a new way of thinking about the Bible that bridges theology and interpretation. Their ecclesial analogy invites us to think of Scripture in similar terms to how we think of the church, countering the incarnational model propagated by Peter Enns and others.

Daniel Castelo (PhD, Duke University) is associate dean for academic formation and the William Kellon Quick Professor of Theology and Methodist Studies at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. He previously taught at Seattle Pacific University. He received a 2011 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise for his book The Apathetic God: Exploring the Contemporary Relevance of Divine Impassability and has written a number of other books, including Pentecostalism as a Christian Mystical Tradition.

Robert W. Wall (ThD, Dallas Theological Seminary) is Paul T. Walls Professor of Scripture and Wesleyan Studies at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, Washington. He has written many journal articles and authored or coauthored numerous books, including A Compact Guide to the Whole Bible and commentaries on Revelation, Colossians/Philemon, James, Acts, and the Pastoral Epistles.