"A new teaching-with authority!": Evangelical traditioning and the challenges to the doctrine of inerrancy

This study examines the doctrine of biblical inerrancy as an expression of evangelical traditioning and Bibliology. It raises the question of whether or not inerrancy can serve as a pedagogically responsible foundation for evangelical traditioning and Bibliology by asking two questions. Firstly, is inerrancy a barrier to theological growth? And secondly, is inerrancy intellectually honest? In answering these aforementioned questions, the dissertation examines the so-called Peter Enns controversy at Westminster Theological Seminary, contrasting an Ennsian approach as outlined in his Inspiration and Incarnation with an inerrantist approach as articulated in the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. The study argues that the doctrine of inerrancy is an improper foundation for both evangelical traditioning and Bibliology because the doctrine both quells an individual’s potential for theological growth and is intellectually dishonest when confronted with the challenges presented by modern biblical scholarship.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Policy Studies

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2016

Author dc:creator

• Raybeck, Nathan Daniel

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dhillon, Pradeep
• McKim, Robert
• Layton, Richard A.
• Pitard, Wayne

• Pedagogy
• Biblical Inerrancy
• Peter Enns Controversy
• Evangelical Theology
• Bibliology

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2016 Nathan Daniel Raybeck

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/92914

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/92914