How Can We be Sure About the Validity of Scripture?

With more than 450 English translations of the Bible available, how can we know if we’ve got the “right” one--the most accurate, the closest to the original, the most preferred by scholars? Are those even the right questions to be asking? Reading the Bible accurately can be one of the most vexing issues Christians face. The Rev. Chris Wood, ’16, interviews Dr. Garwood Anderson about the Bible, its origins, and translation process. Dr. Anderson visits with Fr. Wood to discuss the importance of context, the linguistic mastery of Jerome, the marvels of modern technology, and why any of this should matter to us when we undertake to read and inwardly digest God’s word to us.

Garwood P. Anderson, Ph.D., is Dean, Provost, and professor of New Testament and Greek at Nashotah House. Dr. Anderson formerly taught at Asbury Theological Seminary, and was area and division director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Bethel Theological Seminary, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Reformed Theological Seminary, and the West African Theological Seminary in Lagos, Nigeria.

At Church of the Redeemer in Sarasota, Florida, Fr. Wood serves as Priest Associate for Youth and Young Adults. Originally from New York City, Fr. Wood was a successful videographer and editor in New York before being called to ministry in Sarasota. During his time in the film industry, he edited two Emmy-nominated films, In the Footsteps of Marco Polo (2008) and The Other Side of Hip Hop:”The Sixth Element (2008), for which he won Best Documentary at the Big Apple Film Festival (2007). 

Interview with Dr. Garwood Anderson of Nashotah House and Fr. Christian Wood Come join us in worshiping Christ at Church of the Redeemer in Sarasota, Florida.