“In the end, I wonder what pastors are left with after they lose their “biblicism.” I am all for gaining a Christocentric hermeneutic and keeping the main thing the main thing. But in Smith’s mind the big problem with “expository preaching” today is that it “proceeds on the assumption that a minister can select virtually [...]
Smith argues that the Bible speaks with many voices, “The multivocality and polysemy of the bible, and the diversity and division to which they give rise, are undeniable, historical, empirical, phenomenological facts.” Christian Smith, The Bible Made Possible
“If scripture is as authoritative and clear on essentials as biblicists say it is, then why can’t the Christian church—or even only biblicist churches—get it together and stay together, theologically and ecclessiologically?” –Christian Smith