Misquoting Truth

“I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural.”

RichaRddawkins,from The God Delusion

A QUESTION OF TRUTH

God. Science. Religion. Is God a human invention?

The God DelusionTheNew York Times bestsellerbypreeminentscientist—andtoday’smost

prominentatheist—Richarddawkinsassertstheirrationalityofbeliefin

Godandthegrievousharmreligionhasinflictedonsociety,fromthe

crusadesto9/11.

The Dawkins Delusion?alisterMcGrathandJoannacollicuttMcGrathsubjectdawkins’scritiqueof

faithtorigorousscrutiny,assessingtherelevanceoffaithandthequestfor

meaninginresponsetothequestionsraisedbyThe God Delusion.

couldscienceputanendtoreligion?

istheideaofGodavirusofthemind?

isreligiousfaithresponsibleforhumanviolence?

coulditbeaformofchildabusetoraisechildreninareligioustradition?

A FORUM FOR DEBATE

Richard Dawkins“ifthisbookworksasiintend,

religiousreaderswhoopenitwill

beatheistswhentheyputitdown.”

Alister McGrath“dawkinssimplyoffersthe

atheistequivalentofslickhellfire

preaching,substitutingturbocharged

rhetoricandhighlyselective

manipulationoffactsforcareful,

evidence-basedthinking.”

“The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.”MichaelRuse,lucyleT.werkmeisterProfessorofPhilosophy,Floridastateuniversity

A POINT OF INTERESTBeforecomingtofaiththroughbothscientificandtheologicalstudy,alisterMcGrathwasastaunchatheistmuchlikeRicharddawkins.BothmennowteachatOxforduniversity.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE DAWKINS DELUSION?

“alisterMcGrathinvariablycombinesenormousscholarshipwithanaccessibleandengagingstyle.”

Rowan williams, archbishop of Canterbury

“alisterMcGrathdismantlestheargumentthatscienceshouldleadtoatheism,anddemonstratesinsteadthatdawkinshasabandonedhismuch-cherishedrationalitytoembraceanembitteredmanifestoofdogmaticatheistfundamentalism.”

FRanCis Collins, Director of the Human Genome Project

AUTHOR BIOSalister mcGrath (d.Phil.,Oxforduniversity)isprofessorofhistoricaltheologyatOxforduniversity.afterstudyingchemistryatOxford,heresearchedinthefieldofmolecularbiophysics.hethenmovedonfromstaunchatheismtospecializeinissuesofscienceandreligion.aprolificauthor,McGrathhasalsowrittenThe Twilight of Atheism andDawkins’ God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life.

Joanna Collicutt mcGrathislecturerinthepsychologyofreligionatheythropcollege,universityoflondon.shehasmadesignificantcontributionstoThe Dawkins Delusion?inthesectionsdealingwithbiblicalstudiesandtherelationshipofreligionwithpsychologyandtheneurosciences.sheiscoauthorwithJeremyduffofMeeting Jesus: Human Responses to a Yearning God.

978-0-8308-3446-4,144pages,cloth,$16.00Coming July 2007

“The best response to Bart Ehrman is to wrestle creatively with the questions that his books raise.”TiMOThyPaulJOnes,authorofMisquoting Truth

A QUESTION OF TRUTH

The Bible. Jesus. Christianity. How can we possibly believe?werethenewTestamentdocumentswidelydistortedbycopyists?

weretheGospelsnotbasedonthetestimonyofeyewitnesses?

couldourwholeaccountofJesus’resurrectionbetheresultoflegend?

Misquoting JesusinhisNew York TimesbestsellerMisquoting JesusBartehrmanprovides

convincinganswerstothesequestionsinanefforttochallengethecasefor

theinerrancyoftheBibleandthehistoricalrecordofJesusandchristianity.

Misquoting Truthwhilereadilyconcedingthatehrmanhasresearchedwell,pastorand

researcherTimothyPaulJonesarguesthatehrmanisfartooquicktojump

tofalseandunnecessaryconclusions.inhisnewbook,Misquoting Truth: A

Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman’s “Misquoting Jesus,”Jonesconfronts

ehrman’sassertionsonebyone,providinghiscaseforthereliabilityofthe

BibleasahistoricalrecordofJesusandearlychristianity.

A FORUM FOR DEBATE

Bart Ehrman“whatgooddoesitdotosaythatthe

wordsareinspiredbyGodifmost

peoplehaveabsolutelynoaccessto

thesewords,butonlytomoreorless

clumsyrenderingsofthesewords

intoalanguage?”

Timothy Paul Jones“idisagreestronglywithmanyof

dr.ehrman’sconclusions.ibelieve

thatthecontentofscriptureis

fullyhumanandfullydivine.i’m

convincedthatmycopyofthe

newTestamentdoesaccurately

describewhatJesussaidanddid.

andibelievethatsuchconvictions

canberooted...inthetestimony

ofhistory.”

A POINT OF INTERESTBothfromevangelicalbackgrounds,BartehrmanandTimothyPaulJonesfacedacrisisoffaithduringtheirstudiesthatledthemtoverydifferentconclusionsaboutGod,theBibleandchristianity.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR MISQUOTING TRUTH

“TimothyPaulJonesturnsthetablesonBartehrman’soverstatedMisquoting Jesus.heappliestoehrmanthesameprobinglogicthatehrmanclaimstoapplytothenewTestamentevidence.”

RobeRt YaRbRouGH, associate Professor of new testament, trinity evangelical Divinity school

coauthor of the bestselling The Da Vinci CodebreakerTimoThy Paul Jones

misquoTingTruTh

A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus

978-0-8308-3447-1,144pages,paper,$13.00Coming august 2007

AUTHOR BIOtimothy Paul Jones (ed.d.,ThesouthernBaptistTheologicalseminary)isseniorpastorofFirstBaptistchurchofRollinghills,Tulsa,Oklahoma.hehasalsoservedMidwesternBaptistTheologicalseminaryasavisitingprofessorofbiblicallanguages.heistheauthorofChristian History Made Easy andthebestsellingThe Da Vinci Codebreaker(withJamesGarlowandaprilwilliams).

dr.Jonesistherecipientofnumerousawardsforhisresearchandwriting,includingtheBakerBookhouseawardforexcellenceintheologicalstudies.

RELATED RESOURCESFabricating Jesus counteringsuchrecentreleasesasMisquoting Jesus, The Jesus Papersand

theGospel of Judas,craiga.evansleadsusthroughcontroversialtextsand

theoriestohistory’soneandonlyJesus.

290pages,cloth,978-0-8308-3318-4,$19.00

The Da Vinci QuestionJamesemerywhitesiftsthroughdanBrown’sclaimsaboutJesus,Mary

Magdaleneandearlychristianity,exposingtheGnosticheresyinherentin

The Da Vinci Code.

32pages,booklet,saddlestitched,978-0-87784-042-8,$1.50

The Judas Gospel nicholasPerrinprovidesanintroductiontotheGospel of Judas. Findingitto

benogospelatall,heappraisesitshistoricalvalueforstudyingJesus,Judas

andsecond-centuryGnosticism.

32pages,booklet,saddlestitched,978-0-87784-039-8,$1.50

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