{"id":286,"date":"2015-06-14T18:31:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T18:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2021-01-24T12:26:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T12:26:04","slug":"scripture-and-the-post-darwinian-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/scripture-and-the-post-darwinian-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Scripture and the Post-Darwinian Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Has the importance of the concepts of biblical inerrancy and infallibility changed for evangelical Christians today when compared to the end of the 19th Century? If so, why?<\/h2>\n<p>At the end of the 19th century the issue of the inspiration of scripture, specifically its traditional claims of inerrancy and infallibility as the very words of God communicated to and recorded providentially and perfectly by human authors (\u2018verbal inspiration\u2019), commanded near centre stage within British, American and Continental academic theology. This essay identifies the primary importance of the emergence of fundamentalism as both an academic response and a cultural reaction to the radical cultural changes that were taking place. It then evaluates to what degree the formulations it developed to defend the status of the scriptures are still relevant for evangelicals today.<\/p>\n<p>You can read a PDF of the essay <a href=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/Documents\/Content\/Inerrancy-and-Infallibility.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has the importance of the concepts of biblical inerrancy and infallibility changed for evangelical Christians today when compared to the end of the 19th Century? If so, why? At the end of the 19th century the issue of the inspiration of scripture, specifically its traditional claims of inerrancy and infallibility as the very words of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,33],"tags":[132,193,129,130,131],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christianity","category-philosophy-of-religion","category-theology","tag-darwinism","tag-fundamentalism","tag-inerrancy","tag-infallibility","tag-king-james-only"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Scripture and the Post-Darwinian Controversy - Planet M Blog<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Scripture and the Post-Darwinian Controversy - examining how biblical inerrancy and infallibility changed for evangelical Christians\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/scripture-and-the-post-darwinian-controversy\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Scripture and the Post-Darwinian Controversy - 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