Dr. Gregg Allison's "Historical Theology: Biblical Authority," 93ff.


Biblical Authority, 79-98-- In terms of Biblical authority, Dr. Allison discusses the Romanist novelty of Scripture + church traditions as a multiple-source hypothesis of co-equal veneration and co-equal authority. Logically, this will lead to Papal infallibility over Scriptures, a further consequence of their departure from the ancient and medieval church...which held to Biblical authority above all and everyone. Allison retails the subjectivism of Schleiermacher, Brunner and Barth, to wit, “instrumentalist” views. Schleiermacher cut the connection to Biblical authority in a turn-around, Jesus’s authority first and my experience of Him (with or without Scripture, frankly). Brunner and Barth weren’t as bald about it as Schleiermacher and his offspring, but they’re still subjectivists—the Bible “witnesses” to revelation or “becomes” God’s Word by a subjectivist encounter—me and Jesus and maybe the Word. J.I. Packer, Lloyd-Jones, E.J. Carnel and the International Council of Biblical Inerrancy rebutted plainly the subjectivists be they the dogmatic illiberals or the slicker variety, the no-orthodoxists of Basel. One can think of better resources than Allison offers, but we’ll leave it there (for now).

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