"Thus Faith Comes from What Is Heard" (Romans 10:17): How Much of the Bible Do People Hear?

Abstract

This article is more concerned with the way the Bible is proclaimed publicly and preached than with its treatment as the object of study and teaching in the academy. That is entirely fitting in an issue devoted to commemorating the life and work of Leland J.White. For, while his career in the seminary, college and university classroom absorbed most of his energies, when he did not have another foot in the pulpit he was always concerned with how the Bible is heard or, tragically, not heard by Christian believers. Because this is true of so many BTB readers, they will readily understand the approach taken here.