Breaking News: Jim Packer Suspended by his Bishop

The breaking news from Vancouver Canada is that Professor James I. Packer and David Short, rector of St John's, Shaughnessy are facing what is being widely reported as 'suspension' from ministry. Please read the full article here. The article refers to several clips of Dr Packer on You Tube, which I have located and posted below. A line has been drawn in the sand tonight.

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Articles from the Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society 1.1 on-line

The following articles are now available on-line in PDF:

Ned B. Stonehouse, "1957 Presidential Address: 'The Infallibility of Scripture and Evangelical Progress'," Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society 1.1 (Winter 1958): 9-13.

Ned Stonehouse lays out the importance of the doctrine of biblical infallilibity.

J. Barton Payne, "Paper from the 1957 Mid-Western Section: 'The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Liberal Exegesis'," Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society 1.1 (Winter 1958): 14-18.

Barton Payne uses examples from the book of Daniel to show how liberal theologians have needlessly rejected the Bible's historicity.

Gordon R. Lewis on the Meaning of Infallibility

The following article is now on-line in PDF:

Gordon R. Lewis, "What Does Biblical Infallibility Mean?" Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society 6.1 (Winter 1963): 18-27.

This article explores a means of understanding and communicating the significance of Biblical infallibility and concludes:

(1) Although there is a clear distinction today between meaning and sentences, inspiration may be viewed as implying neither merely conceptual or merely verbal supervision on the part of the Holy Spirit. Inspiration in this realm of discourse applies to both content and wording, meanings and sentences.

(2) “Inerrancy” may be used most clearly for meanings which are cognitively taught by those with delegated authority as spokesmen for God, and for non-cogni­tive meanings relating to the speakers themselves.

(3) “Infallibility” most helpfully designates the verbal media of the Scriptures as effective communicators of the Spirit-intended meaning through the Biblical writings.

(4) All that is written in Scripture is infallible. All that Scripture teaches cogni­tively is objectively true. All that Scripture teaches non-cognitively is subjectively true, i.e. true of the one whose idea is expressed. This then is a plenary view of verbal inspiration; all sentences are infallible, and all meanings are inerrant for their respective purposes.