Edward W. H. Vick was born in Sussex, England and grew up in Berkshire. He was educated at Maidenhead County Boys’ School. He developed an early interest in theology and this led him to Southern University College in Tennessee and to Andrews University in Michigan where he received his M.A. in Biblical Greek, followed by a teaching appointment in Biblical Greek and Theology at Canadian University College, Alberta, Canada. He thereafter graduated from London University (B.D.) and later from Vanderbilt University in Nashville with a Ph.D. in Theological Studies, and from Nottingham University in Philosophy. He taught at the Theological Seminary of Andrews University in Michigan for several years. Returning to England he spent time in Oxford (B.Litt.). He later was head of The Religious Studies Department at Forest Fields College in Nottingham. Now well into retirement, he has taught philosophy for many years in local Adult Education programmes.
He is the author of several books: Let Me Assure You, Jesus the Man, Speaking Well of God, Quest (an introduction to Science and Faith), History and Christian Faith and Is Salvation Really Free? Recent publications include From Inspiration to Understanding: Reading the Bible Seriously and Faithfully, Creation: The Christian Doctrine, and Eschatology: A Participatory Study Guide.
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A basic Christian claim is that God is active in human history to accomplish his purpose, which he will do in the end. This book considers some of the implications of this far-reaching claim. Christian faith is bound up with our personal history but beyond that stretches far into the past. Faith is not identical…
Whether the issue is the validity of a claim to a prophetic gift an authoritative figure in a religious tradition an accepted source of interpretation or even Scriptures authority does not derive from inspiration as a quality of the text but exists as a function of the community.
In debates about the authority of the Bible, people commonly argue that the Bible is inspired, even inerrant, and therefore that it has authority. Is this argument valid? Dr. Edward W. H. Vick argues that it is not, that authority does not derive from inspiration, and that terms like “inspiration” and “inerrancy” do not contribute…
A look at the historical experiences that established a distinctively Adventist hermeneutic.
Edward W. H. Vick provides an unbiassed assessment of the claim that you can go on speaking of the Second Advent as ‘soon’ after having said so for centuries, followed by a constructive statement suggesting a more honest approach derived directly from the New Testament. If you use ‘soon’ in the ordinary sense, you can’t…
The question of what happens after death has fascinated human beings for as long as we’ve had any sense of spirituality. There have been popular books, stories of speculative fiction, reports of visions, and serious Bible studies attempted to explain to us what happens at death and beyond. In Death, Immortality, and Resurrection, Dr. Edward…
A study guide aimed at helping the reader understand discussions of eschatology rather than presenting a conclusion on the subject directly. This is a valuable starting point for mastering a difficult topic.
Dr. Edward W. H. Vick has a reputation for being abstract and detailed, and both of those qualities, along with thoroughness and comprehensiveness describe this book. I’m the author of When People Speak for God, a book on the same topic written for a much more general audience, and if this book had been published before mine, I would have doubtless had a hundred footnotes to Dr. Vick’s work.
This book isn’t for everyone. It’s for the serious student. If you don’t want to think seriously about how the Bible came to be, how God inspires, and what this means for our studies, by all means avoid this book. But if you want to thoroughly study those issues making full use of philosophy and systematic theology, this book is for you.
Every one of us has many and varied beliefs. Are these beliefs justified?