In comments on his post A new statement of biblical inerrancy – part 1 Chris Tilling asks whether he should use a different label, which is also, of course, a challenge to come up with a different label. Of course (given what I said in comments and here) I think he should use another [...]
Why, oh why, oh why? Chris Tilling starts a short series working towards a definition of biblical inerrancy. As far as I can see, what he’s really after is a doctrine of scripture that encourages, promotes and facilitates healthy reading practices. Great, we need some of that.
But it’s all badged up in the weird word [...]
In a partial digression from her posts on how different translations treat some of the verses referring to women, Suzanne McCarthy looks nostalgically at the KJV. She acknowledges that it “did not enjoy immediate success”: there was the little matter of a Civil War intervening between its publication and acceptance.
The key part of her argument, [...]
Hot on the heels of John Hobbins’ Fifth Update on the Canon comes a wholly unlooked for Part Five. This moves beyond specific discussion of the canon into more general hermeneutical issues as they relate to the canon. John wants to steer between the Scylla of a maximalist view of a canon whose OT content [...]
