• Rudolf Bultmann, “The Concept of the Word of God in the New Testament,” in Faith and Understanding, ed. Robert W. Funk, trans. Louise Pettibone Smith (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1969), 286-312.
• Justin Martyr, "First Apology, Second Apology, Dialogue with Trypho" (chapters 55-70), in The Ante-Nicene Fathers, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., n.d.), Volume 1, 163-193, 222-234.
• Athanasius, "On the Incarnation of the Word," in Christology of the Later Fathers, ed. Edward Rochie Hardy, Library of Christian Classics, vol. 3 (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1954), 55-110. Athanasius, "Orations Against the Arians," Book III, par. 26-41, in The Christological Controversy, ed. and trans. Richard A. Norris, Jr. (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980), 83-101.

Session 2:

• Huldrych Zwingli, “Of the Clarity and Certainty of the Word of God,” in Zwingli and Bullinger, trans. and intro. G.W. Bromiley, Library of Christian Classics, vol. 24 (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1953), 59-95
• John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, ed. John T. McNeill, trans. Ford Lewis Battles, Library of Christian Classics, vols. 20-21 (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1960), I.1-I.9 (pp. 35-96), IV.8- IV.10 (pp. 1149-1210).
• Edward A. Dowey, “The Word of God as Scripture and Preaching,” in Later Calvinism: International Perspectives, ed. W. Fred Graham, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, vol. 22 (Kirksville, MO: Northeast Missouri State University, 1994), 5-18.
• B.A. Gerrish, “The Word of God and the Words of Scripture: Luther and Calvin on Biblical Authority,” in The Old Protestantism and the New: Essays on the Reformation Heritage (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), 51-68, 290-302.

Session 3:

• Jonathan Edwards, “The Duty of Hearkening to God’s Voice,” in Sermons and Discourses, 1720-1723, ed. Wilson H. Kimnach (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992), 436-450.
• Jonathan Edwards, “Profitable Hearers of the Word,” and “True Nobleness of Mind,” in Sermons and Discourses, 1723-1729, ed. Kenneth P. Minkema (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997), 243-277, 228-242.
• Friedrich Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith, trans. and ed. J. R. Stewart and H.R. Mackintosh (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1999). pp. 1-19, 50-56, 83-85, 93-94, 100-101, 128-135, 164-169 (pp. 1-93, 194-232, 341-354, 377-389, 425-438, 591-619, 723-737).
• Benjamin Breckenridge Warfield, “The Authority and Inspiration of the Scriptures;” “The Divine and Human in the Bible;” “The Westminster Doctrine of Holy Scripture;” “The Westminster Doctrine of Inspiration;” “The Inerrancy of the Original Autographs;” “The Rights of Criticism and the Church;” “A Review of Three Books on Inspiration;” “Inspiration,” in Selected Shorter Writings of Benjamin B. Warfield II, ed. John E. Meeter (Nutley, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1973), 537-548, 560-636.

Session 4:

• Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, trans. G. W. Bromiley (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1975), I/1: Chapter 1 (pp. 47-247).
• Rudolf Bultmann, “The Church and Teaching in the New Testament,” in Faith and Understanding, ed. Robert W. Funk, trans. Louise Pettibone Smith (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), 184-219.
• Rudolf Bultmann, “New Testament and Mythology;” “On the Problem of De-Mythologizing;” and “Is Exegesis Without Presuppositions Possible;” in New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Theological Writings, selected, trans., and ed. by Schubert M. Ogden (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984), 1-43, 95-130, 145-153.
• Gerhard Ebeling, “Word of God and Hermeneutics;” and “Discussion Theses for a Course of Introductory Lectures on the Study of Theology;” in Word and Faith, trans. James W. Leitsch (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1963), 305-332, 424-433.

Session 5:

• Paul Tillich, “Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality,” and “Word of God,” in Writings in the Philosophy of Religion, ed. John Clayton, Paul Tillich Main Works, vol. 4 (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 1987), 357-388, 405-413.
• Nicholas Wolterstorff, Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim That God Speaks (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 1-129, 171-296.

Session 6:

• Geoffrey Parrinder, “Is the Bhagavad-Gita&Mac226; the Word of God?" in Truth and Dialogue in the World Religions: Conflicting Truth-Claims, ed. John Hick (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1974), 111-125.
• Wilfred Cantwell Smith,"Is the Qur'an the Word of God?" in On Understanding Islam: Selected Studies (The Hague, Paris, New York: Mouton Publishers, 1981), 282-300, 330-33.
• Wilfred Cantwell Smith, What is Scripture? A Comparative Approach (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993), 212-242, 357-367.
• Terrence E. Freitheim and Karlfried Froehlich, The Bible as Word of God In a Postmodern Age (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998), 81-135.