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

Raybeck, Nathan Daniel

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Title

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

Author(s)

Raybeck, Nathan Daniel

Issue Date

2016-07-01

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Dhillon, Pradeep

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Dhillon, Pradeep

Committee Member(s)

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

Department of Study

Educational Policy,Organization & Leadership

Discipline

Educational Policy Studies

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Keyword(s)

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

Abstract

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.

Graduation Semester

2016-08

Type of Resource

text

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