Dr. Gregg Allison's "Historical Theology: Inerrancy, Chap. 5," 111ff.


1.     In the early Modern Period, doubts are introduced by Isaac Peyrere (1592-1676) and Hugo Grotius (1583-1645). The standard narrative emerges on Biblical vandalism: Spinoza’s Pentateuchal ideas, Descartes’s worship of his own reason, Roger Simon and Jean Leclerk’s academic skirmishings and stand-off on Penateuchal composition while English Deists (Cartesian worship of self and reason) emerge –Toland, Tindal, Edward Herbert of Cherbury, and Anthony Collins. The JEDP branch grows and develops in the historic soil—Jean Astuc, Eichorn, De Wette, Graf, Wellhausen, and William Robertson Smith. The twin-whammy force of Pentateuchal dethronement is Darwinianism, a view that takes out Dr. Crawford Toy at Southern Baptist Seminary. Dr. Allison doesn’t mention the downfall of Toy’s Presbyterian counterpart of Dr. Charles Briggs at Union Seminary, NYC.


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