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A few days ago I received the following email from an agnostic reader of this website. The email is copied here in its [...]
We now suggest that eschatology, oriented toward the central significance of the coming of Christ in the history of redemption, provides us with more than a static theological formulation. It has deep and dynamic implications for the methodological significance of contextualization. It reminds us, to quote Vos, that “we ourselves live just as much in [...]
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Peter Enns - Author of the controversial Inspiration and Incarnation, Enns was until recently a professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary. His academic interests include: Old Testament Theology, Biblical Theology, Wisdom Literature (esp. Ecclesiastes), the NT’s use of the OT, Second Temple literature, and the general [...]
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: 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 [...]
The fourth and fifth parts of my reflections on Inspiration and Incarnation are now posted. Find all parts posted so far on the I&I page on this site. Or click the titles below to go directly to Parts 4 or 5.
InerrancyThe Audience of I&I
The third part of my reflections on Inspiration and Incarnation is now posted. Find all parts posted so far on the I&I page on this site. Or click the title below to go directly to Part 3.
Westminster Confession of Faith 1 Speaks to the Authority of Scripture. It Is Not, in and of Itself, a [...]
The second part of my “Reflections on I&I” (see intro in post immediately below) is now posted.
It and all the future installments of this essay will be linked from the I&I page on this site, or click the title below to go directly to part:
The Authority of Scripture is a Function of Its Divine Origin, [...]