Authority is a central issue today. In many walks of life people talk about "a crisis of authority." In this book, William Barclay examines the meaning of authority in the Old and New Testaments to help us understand the basis of authority today. He also traces the tension between authority and freedom in the church over the centuries as background to the kind of authority that the church can expect to exert in the modern world. The issues are faced with William Barclay's characteristic honesty and clarity, and they are illustrated continually by specific examples drawn from the Bible and the life of the Christian church.
William Barclay was an author, radio and television presenter, Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow.
While professor, he decided to dedicate his life to "making the best biblical scholarship available to the average reader". The eventual result was the Daily Study Bible, a set of 17 commentaries on the New Testament, published by Saint Andrew Press, the Church of Scotland's publishing house.
The 17 volumes of the set were all best-sellers and continue to be so to this day. Barclay wrote many other popular books, always drawing on scholarship but written in a highly accessible style.
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