Dr. Gregg Allison's "Historical Theology: Inerrancy, Chap. 5," 106ff.


Chapter 5. Inerrancy, 99-119—the Bible is inerrant, completely true and without error in all that it affirms. Dr. Allison deals with inerrancy in the early Church, the Middle Ages, the Reformation and Post-Reformation periods and the modern period. As for the early Church, Jewish rabbis, the apostles, Jesus, Clement of Rome, Justin Martyr, Hippolytus, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen, Theophilus, Athanasius, Chrysostom and, notably, Augustine are enlisted with copious citations from their works. The Middle Ages reflected the same views—Anselm, Hervaeus Natalias, Alexander of Hales and Aquinas as well. Peter Abelard is singled out as an outlier—with his Sic et Non hermeneutic. Peter does the “yes and no” on the issue. As for the inerrancy of Scriptures in the Reformation and Post-Reformation, we get what’s expected—the maintenance of the heritage of the historic, catholic and apostolic church. Regrettably, we hear nothing of Cranmer, Jewel and Whittaker, as if they don't exist. Citations are offered—predictably—from Luther, Calvin (via James Packer citing the Institutes), the Westminster Confession, Calov, Quenstedt, and Turretin. In the early Modern Period, doubts are introduced by Isaac Peyrere (1592-1676) and Hugo Grotius (1583-1645). More to follow.

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