The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture: How the Bible Became a Secular Book

What is mistaken with Scripture scholarship lately? Why is it that the last place one will have to go to study the Bible is a biblical studies program at virtually any university? Why are such a lot of faithful priests and pastors, and the people in their pews, unaware of the centuries-long effort to turn the sacred Word of God into just some other secular text?

In The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture: How the Bible Became a Secular Book, authors Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker trace the quite a lot of malformations of Scripture scholarship that have led to a devastating lack of agree with in the inspired Word of God.

From the Reformation to the Enlightenment and beyond, Hahn and Wiker sketch the revolutions and radical figures that led to the emergence of the historical-critical method and the pervasive in poor health effects which can be still being felt lately.