Michael J. Kruger. Canon Revisited: Establishing the Origins and Authority of the New Testament Books. 
Wheaton: Crossway, 2012. 368 pp.
- 58-page (!) PDF sample
- 7 glowing endorsements (including Michael Horton, John Frame, and Charles Hill)
- 4 lectures by Kruger on the canon
- 3-minute video by Kruger on the canon [Read more…] about The New Go-to Book on the NT Canon
“It is impossible that Scripture should contradict itself; it only appears so to senseless and obstinate hypocrites.”
—Martin Luther, as quoted in John D. Woodbridge, Biblical Authority: A Critique of the Rogers/McKim Proposal (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1982), 53.
I’d love to see Luther interviewed by the mainstream media today!
This 90-minute film releases in the United States today: KJB: The Book That Changed the World.
Jenni and I enjoyed watching it last week.
Here’s a three-minute preview:
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!