Leading theologians - Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox - speak out on the crisis in the role of bibical authority and the interpretation of the Bible in the church. From various perspectives the contributors examine the gap between the academic, historical, and critical approach to the study of the Bible and the church's liturgical and dogmatic transmission of bibical faith. The authors contend that while historical criticism is indispensible to the understanding of Scripture, it is itself inadequate when separated from faith if used to accommodate Christ to the ideological demands of contemporary secular society.