From its inception in the 1730s, the evangelical movement was 
underpinned by the conviction that the Bible was the inspired, 
infallible, and inerrant word of God. The evangelical seminaries and 
societies that sprang up in the 1930-1940s as a response to the 
Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy and to the abandonment of orthodoxy
 in the mainline Protestant divinity schools started off as bastions of 
that same conviction. But it became clear in the 1970s that more 
humanistic notions were beginning to become endemic there too. 
Seminarians were learning that the Bible was ultimately more human than 
divine, contained errors of fact and logic, and needed to be interpreted
 in new ways. Seeing how these innovations would undermine and erode the
 foundations of their Bible-based faith, more than 300 scholars and 
leaders arose to meet the challenge with a scholarly, conservative, and 
pan-denominational response. This International Council on Biblical 
Inerrancy (ICBI) worked to clarify the proper ways “handle the word of 
truth” (2 Tim. 2:15) and to educate evangelicals about its importance. 
As a result, the revolutionaries retreated for the remainder of the 
20th-century. <i>Explaining Biblical Inerrancy</i> is a collection of 
the three primary and two secondary documents of the ICBI corpus. It 
offers a witness to a historic era where conservative evangelical 
scholarship may have approached its zenith, delayed its twilight, and 
contributed to the fourth Great Awakening. This repository of 20th 
century wisdom should provide a valuable and timeless resource for 21st 
century evangelicals who stand at the cross-roads of conservation and 
contextualization, tradition and trends, preservation and progress, 
retention and revolution.

Explaining Biblical Inerrancy: Commentary on the ICBI: Official Commentary on the ICBI Statements 2013 PDF

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