Sentences with phrase «biblical authority concerns»

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But while Lindsell obviously intends to meet these concerns, his book is actually a repristination (and often less subtle than earlier expressions) of a particular timebound formulation of biblical authority that is being seen by increasing numbers of evangelicals not only to have outlived its usefulness but to have become a positive hindrance to the understanding of the fuller and deeper significance of the Scriptures.

The focus of theological discussion among evangelicals concerning Biblical authority has naturally gravitated to a consideration of the doctrines of inspiration and revelation, i. e., to a discussion of Scripture's source.

«29 Dayton is correct in noting the current problem in evangelicalism concerning Biblical authority, but wrong in asserting the inadequacy of evangelicalism's paradigms.

«58 With the publication of Jewett's book the question of «error» is seen to be a pertinent topic for discussion concerning Biblical authority, even among those holding to a position of «complete infallibility.»

Perhaps evangelicalism's most common argument concerning Biblical authority runs as follows: If one will grant the general reliability of the New Testament documents as verified historically, then, as the Holy Spirit uses this witness to create faith in Christ as Lord and Savior, the Christian comes to accept Jesus Christ as authoritative.

Although Jewett chaired the committee which formulated Fuller's revised Statement of Faith and recognized the need to move the discussion concerning Biblical authority from the issue of inerrancy to that of interpretation, the argument in his book is inadequate at this very point.

Both have let polemical and apologetic concerns become primary, with the result that the authority and truthfulness of the Biblical text are undermined.

Otherwise, a spade should be called a spade, and evangelicalism's Biblical position concerning authority should be modified.

The heat generated by this topic is witness to the fact that we are, in Pinnock's words, «close to the heart of the conception of religious authority in our evangelical confession, which «limits the ground of religious authority to the Bible.3» There is a «deep relationship between origin and authority» that can not be ignored.4 Thus discussion concerning the implications of inspiration is of interest to all evangelicals who seek to be Biblical Christians.

Furthermore, it would be helpful to show that the existing concern for evangelism and church growth could not be pursued apart from the issues raised by the wider social setting without doing damage to the biblical understanding of mission This also had to be done from the text itself, and not from any intrinsic authority given by the congregation to the preacher.