If you do not believe the Bible as the infallible and authoritative Word of God, why read Piper, as his whole belief system is based on it? (nakedpastor.com)
In the one understanding of contextualization, the revelatory trajectory moves only from authoritative Word into contemporary culture; in the other, the trajectory moves both from text to context and from context to text, and in the midst of this traffic the interpreter, rather like a police officer at a busy intersection, emerges as the sovereign arbiter as to what God's Word for our time actually is. (religion-online.org)
But, speaking on behalf of all of those who didn't get a ballot, I can say we're not jealous, but instead thrilled that the same critical profile that once placed Trash, Showgirls, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Lickerish Quartet alongside Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, John Ford, and Carl Theodor Dreyer will be making its mark in what nearly any card - carrying cinephile recognizes as the most authoritative word on the canon. (slantmagazine.com)