Vital Issues in the Inerrancy Debate
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
The inerrancy of God’s Word has been attacked throughout church history. Today’s assaults are unique since neo-evangelicals now surrender to post-modernistic ideas of history and historical-critical ideologies that assault this vital doctrine. They seek to redefine the orthodox meaning of inerrancy. Since the signing of the Chicago Statements, troubling signs have once again appeared in recent years among many who either did not fight the battles for the inerrancy of Scripture as did the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy, or who do not remember the troubling times that caused their development. The nature and definition of “inerrancy” are now being changed to include ideas of fallibility. History is forgotten. The need arises for sounding the alarm for Vital Issues in Inerrancy. Evangelical schools and churches that broke away earlier to defend inerrancy surrender now to academic prestige and scholarly fads instead of faithfulness to God’s inerrant Word. The contributors pray that the Lord will raise up a new generation with the spiritual fervency of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy to uphold the inerrancy of God’s Word: Isaiah 40:8--"The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever."
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- Sounds the alarm regarding modern assaults on the orthodox definition of biblical inerrancy
- Exposes how contemporary ideologies and academic trends lead evangelical institutions toward views of fallibility
- Upholds the legacy of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy to inspire a new generation of faithfulness
- Contributors
- Foreword by Paige Patterson
- Preface
- Part 1-Inerrancy Defined
- Chapter 1: The Historic Documents of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy
- Chapter 2: What Is Inerrancy and Why Should We Care?
- Chapter 3: A Voice from a New Generation: What’s at Stake?
- Chapter 4: Evangelical Mentoring: The Danger from Within
- Chapter 5: Review of Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy
- Chapter 6: The 2015 Shepherds’ Conference on Inerrancy
- Chapter 7: Interview with Paige Patterson on the Importance of Inerrancy
- Chapter 8: Do You Have to Be a Calvinist to Believe in Inerrancy?
- Part 2-Inerrancy Defended
- Chapter 9: “It’s Just a Matter of Interpretation, Not of Inerrancy”: Examining the Relation between Inerrancy and Hermeneutics
- Chapter 10: Biblical Inerrancy, Inductive or Deductive Basis: A Response to William Lane Craig
- Chapter 11: Early Twentieth Century Challenges to Inerrancy
- Chapter 12: Early Twenty-First-Century Challenges to Inerrancy
- Chapter 13: The Resurgence of Neo-Evangelicalism: Craig Blomberg’s Latest Book and the Future of Evangelical Theology
- Chapter 14: The Battle for the Bible Begins Anew
- Chapter 15: Inerrancy as a Litmus Test of Evangelical Orthodoxy? Clarifications on Carl F. H. Henry’s View
- Chapter 16: Can We Still Believe Critical Evangelical Scholars? The Danger from Within
- Chapter 17: The “Magic” of Historical Criticism
- Chapter 18: Part One: A Critical Evaluation of Robert H. Gundry’s Westmont College Lecture, “Peter: False Disciple and Apostate according to Saint Matthew”
- Chapter 19: Part Two: A Critical Evaluation of Robert H. Gundry’s Westmont College Lecture, “Peter: False Disciple and Apostate According to Saint Matthew” (and Now Recently Released Book)
- Chapter 20: A Critical Review of Donald Hagner’s “Ten Guidelines for Evangelical Scholarship”
- Chapter 21: On Licona Muddying the Waters of the Chicago Statements of Biblical Inerrancy and Hermeneutics
- Chapter 22: The Early Church Fathers and the Resurrection of the Saints in Matthew 27:51-54
- Chapter 23: Can We Still Believe in the Bible?
- Chapter 24: ICBI Inerrancy Is Not for the Birds
- Chapter 25: Contemporary Evangelical NT Genre Criticism: Opening Pandora’s Box?
- Chapter 26: Book Review: Craig Blomberg’s Can We Still Believe the Bible?
- Chapter 27: Book Review: The Lost World of Adam and Eve
- Chapter 28: An Exposition and Refutation of the Key Presuppositions of Contemporary Jesus Research
- Chapter 29: Redating the Gospels
- Chapter 30: Misinterpreting J. I. Packer on Inerrancy and Hermeneutics
- Chapter 31: Can We Still Trust New Testament Professors?
- Chapter 32: Did Roman Christians Detect the Influence of Roman Historiography in Matthew 27:45-54?
- Epilogue: Historical Criticism vs. Grammatico-Historical: Quo Vadis Evangelicals?
- Appendix: Statements on the Imporlance of Inerrancy from Prominent Christian Leaders
- Bibliography
- Person and Subject Index
- Scripture Index
"From within the Washington beltway somewhere there arose the
sentiment that ‘eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.’ What is
the case politically is even more the case theologically. As this
book illustrates, the resounding standards established at the close
of the twentieth century by the ICBI, Missouri Synod Lutherans, and
Southern Baptists are now subject to reinterpretation by those who
seem to prefer a priesthood of scholars over a priesthood of
believers. David Farnell and his fellow editors have responded in
these pages, holding high the standard of the full reliability of
God’s word. This is a crucial volume for a day of flagging
confidence in the Bible."
--Paige Patterson, President, Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary