WTS Books just stocked this book:
John Wenham. Christ and the Bible. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994. Repr., Wipf and Stock, 2009.
Here’s what Mark Dever says about it in the last paragraph of his essay “Inerrancy of the Bible: An Annotated Bibliography“:
I’ve saved the best for last. If I could just recommend one book on the inerrancy of the Bible it would undoubtedly be this one—John Wenham, Christ and the Bible (Tyndale Press, 1972 [UK]; IVP, 1973 [US]). Wenham’s book has been through three editions and makes the simple point that our trust in Scripture is to be a part of our following Christ, because that is the way that He treated Scripture—as true, and therefore authoritative. (Robert Lightner, a professor of Systematic Theology at Dallas Seminary published a similar book a few years later, A Biblical Case for Total Inerrancy: How Jesus Viewed the Old Testament [Kregel, 1978].) Wenham had first put these ideas in print with a little Tyndale pamphlet in 1953 called Our Lord’s View of the Old Testament. In Christ and the Bible, Wenham, who taught Greek for many years at Oxford, an Anglican evangelical, has done us all a great service in providing us with a book which understands that we do not come by our adherence to Scripture fundamentally from the inductive resolutions of discrepancies, but from the teaching of the Lord Jesus. Only because of the Living Word may we finally know to trust the Written Word. May God use these resources of those who’ve gone before us to equip and encourage us in so trusting.
Dever concludes by giving Wenham his top recommendation:
To get up to speed on this issue, and to help you with your ministry, consider the following recommendations.
MUST READ: Wenham
SHOULD READ: Warfield, Packer’s “Fundamentalism” and the Word of God, Lindsell [The Battle for the Bible and The Bible in the Balance], any one of the edited volumes of your choosing!
Steven Schueren says
This is good news indeed. I consider Wenham’s work one of the very (if not the) best on my shelf concerning the nature of Holy Scripture.
Barry Wallace says
Wenham is brilliant, no doubt, and a very gifted writer. Going off on a tangent, perhaps, I read his book “The Goodness of God” in the mid 70’s and thought it was both outstanding and yet slightly disturbing. It was my first encounter with a conservative biblical scholar who advocated conditional immortality. If that’s not too far off topic for you to comment on, what are your thoughts about his view of hell?
Andy Naselli says
Barry, I’d recommend this:
D. A. Carson. “On Banishing the Lake of Fire.” Pages 515–36 in The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.
Barry Wallace says
Thanks, Andy. I love Carson and have that book on my wish list, but obviously haven’t read it yet. Does he interact directly with Wenham’s views in the book? Thanks.
Andy Naselli says
Yes. You can preview the book via Amazon or Google Books.