Sentences with phrase «over biblical inerrancy»

Even Christianity Today, Henry thought, had squandered an opportune moment by moving from Washington to the evangelical hinterland near Wheaton, by becoming a populist organ rather than challenging the cognitive frontiers of the era, and by becoming obsessed (for a while) with the intra-evangelical debate over biblical inerrancy.

Not exact matches

As we learned in the discussion on Inerrancy, the process of copying the Greek and Hebrew texts caused errors to creep into the biblical manuscripts over time.

During the debate over «biblical inerrancy» that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s, I remember someone observing that Harold Lindsell's 1976 book, The Battle for the Bible, which pretty much got that debate going, was more a theory of institutional change than it was about theology as such.

The author looks at why we can not simply assert the truth of the Bible over our modern common sense and shows that Biblical literalism / inerrancy is an approach to the Scriptures that is unacceptable both to our reason and to our faith.

For example, they escape for the most part the dispiriting disputes over evolution and biblical inerrancy.