Dogmas are accepted fairly easily in the early days of every religion

However, their acceptance gets on a rough path over time, and as a result, numerous theories are proposed to make them credible. The Bible is an example of such dogmas. This question was posed in the Age of Enlightenment: ‘How do we gain a comprehensive knowledge of Christianity and salvation?’ Christians, including both Catholics and Protestants, traditionally believed that the Bible could provide them with such knowledge. However, in the modern era, intense criticisms of the Bible have brought to the fore the theory of the Bible justification. The following were the influential factors in the birth of this theory in modern times: the Renaissance, the Reformation, universal right for Biblical interpretations, the removal of the Apocrypha, the weakening of the Church authority, new criticisms of the Bible, and the features of modern times such as the emphasis on autonomy, suspicion of the past, cultural relativity, and theological thoughts about the Bible inerrancy. David McKim, the author, elaborates on these factors and moves on to explain the sharp difference between the progress of the English reformations and those in other parts of Europe. To this end, he delves into the internal situation of Great Britain: English civil wars that inhibited the growth of philosophy and modern sciences; the Puritanism that used local, Augustinianistic, anti-Aristotelian resources; Westminster clerics who took up Augustine’s middle way in theological methodology and disagreed with Catholic, extremist rationalists; John Owen who clarified the movement toward didacticism; and scholars such as Isaac Newton, John Locke, and Thomas Reid whose ideas triggered the separation of religion and science and priority of reason over faith, even in religious affairs.