The Erosion of Inerrancy in Evangelicalism: Responding to New Challenges to Biblical Authority

by G. K. Beale

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2008

Overview

Examines recent efforts to redefine the traditional evangelical view of scriptural authority. Providing scores of arguments that demonstrate inerrancy, Beale's logic presents formidable challenges to postmodern suppositions.

Contents

Top Highlights

“‘Myth is an ancient, premodern, prescientific way of addressing questions of ultimate origins and meaning in the form of stories: Who are we? Where do we come from?’” (Page 30)

“First, the onset of postmodernism in evangelicalism has caused less confidence in the propositional claims⁴ of the Bible, since such claims have to be understood only by fallible human interpreters.” (Page 20)

“Thus, it may be true that Enns almost never makes the explicit verbal statement that the accounts in Genesis and Exodus are not historical, but he often conveys the concept.” (Page 36)

“Enns discusses the parallels between ancient Near Eastern myths and accounts in the Old Testament” (Page 25)

“interpreting Enns by Enns, that the biblical stories had ‘a firm grounding in ancient myth’” (Page 30)

Product Details

• Title: The Erosion of Inerrancy in Evangelicalism: Responding to New Challenges to Biblical Authority
• Author: G. K. Beale
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2008
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Pages: 304
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible › Evidences, authority, etc.--History of doctrines
• ISBNs: 9781433522093, 9781433502033, 1433502038, 1433522098
• Resource ID: LLS:09BB57A3C5A4B5CEC1CD2BAC26FD181F
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-05-20T07:27:32Z

About G. K. Beale

Dr. Gregory K. Beale is Professor of New Testament at RTS Dallas. He has had a long and distinguished academic career, teaching at Grove City College, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Wheaton Graduate School, and Westminster Theological Seminary. Before joining the RTS Dallas faculty in 2021, he served as Westminster’s J. Gresham Machen Chair and Research Professor of New Testament and Biblical Interpretation. He is a past president of the Evangelical Theological Society. Dr. Beale is a native Texan and a graduate of Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas Theological Seminary, and Cambridge University,