The Clarity of Scripture

IS SCRIPTURE CLEAR?IF IT IS, WHY DO PORTIONS OF IT SEEM SO OBSCURE?IF IT ISN'T, WHY HAVE THEOLOGIANS SPENT SO MUCH TIMEDEFENDING THE NOTION OF ITS CLARITY? AND MORE IMPORTANT, ARE CHRISTIANS ENGAGED IN A FUTILE EFFORT IN TRYING TO READ AND UNDERSTAND IT? JAMES CALLAHAN OFFERS VALUABLE INSIGHT INTO THE COMPLEX NOTION of biblical perspicuity. He sets the issues within the history of the church and traces how the Bible's clarity has been understood practically and theologically over time. With prec