Criticism: I&I denies inerrancy
I have also addressed this issue in a different context elsewhere on this website, but I would like to flesh this out a bit here.
Defining “inerrancy” is certainly a topic of discussion among Evangelicals, and opinions are voiced from one extreme of maintaining older paradigms at all costs to jettisoning the term [...]
Criticism 2: The thoughts expressed in I&I are merely one way of looking at the issues. There are other possible solutions.
This is correct. It is also a rather unhelpful statement given that any attempt at meaningful communication suffers the same fate. Any attempt to address subjects like the Bible and the ANE, theological diversity, and [...]
Criticism: I&I is inconsistent with the Reformed faith in that it is inconsistent with past articulations of that faith. Most importantly, it is inconsistent with the first chapter of the Westminster Confession of Faith.
On the last point (WCF), I have already expressed myself on this website. I won’t repeat my earlier comments here, other than [...]
Introduction
Over the past few months I have given some thought about how to continue the dialogue over the issues articulated in I&I (Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament, Baker 2005). During that time there have been a few responses circulating the cyber-world, print publications, not to mention numerous extended [...]
Genesis and Evangelicals
A free lecture sponsored by
The Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science
and the Messiah College Honors Program
Featured speaker: Dr. Peter Enns
Evangelicalism has tended to have an uneasy relationship with biblical scholarship of the last several generations. In this lecture, Prof. Enns will look at one specific example of this–the book of [...]
On August 13, 2008, I was interviewed by Marty Moss-Coane on her program Radio Times, heard on WHYY in Philadelphia. This show is consistently voted as the best interview show on NPR in the Philadelphia area.
Listen to it here.