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A 10 page, footnoted theological examination of the debate over whether or not Scripture should be regarded as without error. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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this suggests, how Scripture is regarded differs across the spectrum of denominations and sects. For example, the question of whether or not sacred Scripture possesses inerrancy, that is, every word
as each author wrote it is precisely accurate and true, or if Scripture is sometimes flawed, containing errors, such as a quotation attributed to the wrong source, or an error
in geography, has been debated extensively by theologians since the late nineteenth century. On October 15, 1891, the Prosecuting Committee of the New York Presbytery brought charges of heresy against
Charles Augustus Briggs, an ordained minister, Hebrew scholar and seminary professor, for being a proponent of the "partial theory" of inspiration and for challenging the inerrancy of Scripture throughout the
1880s in his published works.2 The following examination of the doctrine of inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture begins with a summation of Briggss trial, as this accurately and
concisely frames the issues and controversy that this doctrine has generated. However, drawing on additional scholarship, it can be shown that the position of Briggs and that of his critics
can be reconciled, as Briggs never denied that Scripture is divinely inspired. Therefore, the doctrine of inerrancy can be successfully reconciled with the goals of textual scholarship, which has determined
seeming "errors" in scriptural passages. The position of Charles A. Briggs on inerrancy Briggs maintained that neither the Scriptures themselves nor history supported the idea of inerrancy. He argued
that discernible mistakes could be found in scriptural passages, but that these "mistakes of inadvertence," contributed no significant problem to theological interpretation and, in fact, contributed to the "genuineness" of
the document, which is "something that an errorless composition would entirely lack."3 Briggs wrote: That there are errors in the present text of our Bible and inconsistencies, it seems
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