Men’s Prayer Breakfast

“How can well-intentioned and intelligent persons come to such opposite conclusions about the same documents? Are the scriptures simply not clear? Are the parties to the debate interpreting the scriptures in different ways? And if so, what is the right way? Is there a “right way”? And what of “authority”-a notoriously slippery term? Is there a particular way in which the scriptures can or ought to be authoritative for the church’s discourse, and if so, what is it?”

These are some of the questions that author Christopher Bryan asks and reflects on in his book And God Spoke: The Authority of the Bible for the church today. Bryan is an Anglican priest and the former C.K. Benedict Professor of New Testament at the School of Theology at the University of the South and editor of the Sewanee Theological Review. Beginning this Thursday, April 24th in Men’s Prayer Breakfast, we will try to answer these questions among others with the assistance of Bryan’s book.