The Erosion of Inerrancy in Evangelicalism: Responding to New Challenges to Biblical Authority
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.
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)
- 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
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible › Evidences, authority, etc.--History of doctrines
- Resource ID: LLS:09BB57A3C5A4B5CEC1CD2BAC26FD181F
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2021-04-26T18:31:39Z
G. K. Beale (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is Kenneth T. Wessner Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College Graduate School, Wheaton, Illinois, and coordinator of Wheaton's M.A. in Biblical Exegesis program. His books include The Book of Revelation (New International Greek Testament Commentary), 1-2 Thessalonians (The IVP New Testament Commentary Series), The Right Doctrine from the Wrong Texts? Essays on the Use of the Old Testament in the New, and The Temple and the Church's Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God.