I. The Origin, Nature, and End of Scripture

• How do the scriptures participate in God’s broader economy of salvation?
• In what senses are the scriptures divinely inspired revelation & human artifacts?
• How is the Word Inspired related to the Word Incarnate & the Word Proclaimed?
• How does the Holy Spirit illuminate our reading of the scriptures?

II. The Attributes of Scripture

• What is scripture’s necessity, sufficiency, unity, clarity, efficacy, and authority?
• What is meant by sola scriptura? Where does it leave tradition, reason, and experience?
• Are inerrancy and/or infallibility essential attributes?

III. The Contents of Scripture 

• Which books hold canonical status and why?
• Which manuscripts are to be privileged?
• Which translations are to be privileged?
• How are the OT & NT related to one another?

IV. The Hermeneutics of Scripture

• Where do we look for meaning? To the author, the text, or the reader?
  • Constitutional analog: Originalism v Textualism v Living Constitution
• What lenses of analysis are appropriate?
  • historical-critical, literary-rhetorical, ideological, theological?
• Is there a “gap” between what scripture first meant and what it means today?
• Are there multiple senses of scriptural texts? e.g. the pre-modern fourfold typology
• How do the various parts and genres relate to the whole?
• Is there a single organizing hermeneutical key or coherent metanarrative unifying its component parts?
• To what modes of appeal is scripture amenable?

V. The Apologetics of Scripture

• Are the claims of scripture conceptually coherent?
• Are they internally consistent?
• Are they claims to public truth?
• Are they historically and scientifically accurate?
• Were they reliably transmitted?
• Are they morally sound?
• Are they psychologically well- or mal-adjusted?
• Are they ideologically invested?
• The scandal of particularity — Why would God attest himself through earthen vessels?