George I. Mavrodes on the Inspiration of Autographs

The following article is now available on-line in PDF:

George I. Mavrodes, "The Inspiration of Autographs," The Evangelical Quarterly 41.1 (Jan.-Mar. 1969): 19-29.

This article appears by kind permission of the author.

J. Theodore Mueller on The Holy Spirit and the Scriptures

The following article is available in both iPaper and PDF:

J. Theodore Mueller, "The Holy Spirit and the Scriptures," Carl F.H. Henry, ed., Revelation and the Bible. Contemporary Evangelical Thought. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1958 / London: The Tyndale Press, 1959. pp.267-281.

B.B. Warfield on the Inspiration of the Bible

The following article is now on-line in both iPaper and PDF:

Benjamin B. Warfield, “Inspiration,” James Orr, Gen. Ed., International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia, Vol. 3. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1939. Hbk. pp.1473-1483.

B.B. Warfield summarises what is often regarded as the classic statement of the subject.

R.A. Finlayson on Contemporary Ideas of Inspiration

The following article is now available as both iPaper and PDF:

R.A. Finlayson, "Contemporary Ideas of Inspiration," Carl F.H. Henry, ed., Revelation and the Bible. Contemporary Evangelical Thought. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1958 / London: The Tyndale Press, 1959. pp.221-234.

Geoffrey W. Bromiley on the Church Doctrine of Inspiration

The following article is now available as both iPaper and PDF:

Geoffrey W. Bromiley, "The Church Doctrine of Inspiration," Carl F.H. Henry, ed., Revelation and the Bible. Contemporary Evangelical Thought. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1958 / London: The Tyndale Press, 1959. pp.205-217.

Alan M. Stibbs on The Witness of Scripture to Its Inspiration

The following article is now on-line in both iPaper and PDF:

Alan M. Stibbs, "The Witness of Scripture to Its Inspiration," Carl F.H. Henry, ed., Revelation and the Bible. Contemporary Evangelical Thought. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1958 / London: The Tyndale Press, 1959. pp.107-118.

Carl F.H. Henry, ed., Revelation and the Bible - first section now-on-line

I asked at the beginning of the month for visitors to vote on which article from this volume would be most useful to them as at the time I planned only to place one of them on-line before returning to work on Vox Evangelica articles. Such was the level of interest that I have decided to spend the month placing all of them on-line. The first 11 or so can be found linked from this page. The most popular articles according to your votes are included. Scheduled blog posts will announce each in turn and new ones as these are completed - enjoy!

Carl F.H. Henry, ed., Revelation and the Bible. Contemporary Evangelical Thought. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1958 / London: The Tyndale Press, 1959.

"Revelation and the Bible" to be placed online

Carl F.H. Henry, editor, Revelation and the Bible: Contemporary Evangelical Thought. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1958 / London: The Tyndale Press, 1959.

With the help of members of the Theology on the Web Facebook Group I have been able to contact the literary executor of the late Dr Carl F.H. Henry and I am delighted to be able to report that I have been granted permission to place the entire contents of this book on-line.

As you will see from the Table of Contents (below) all the articles look really interesting. I have added them to my long "to do" list, but would like to place one of them online straight away. I am therefore going to ask my readers to vote on which one they would most like to read by leaving a comment below. The closing date for suggestions is 12th April.

Table of Contents

Preface by Carl F.H. Henry, pp.7-10

Chapters:

1 G.C. Berkouwer - General and Special Divine Revelation, pp.11-24

2 Gordon H. Clark - Special Divine Revelation as Rational, pp.25-41
3 Paul K. Jewett - Special Revelation as Historical and Personal, pp.43-57
4 William J. Martin - Special Revelation as Objective, pp.59-72

5 N.B. Stonehouse - Special Revelation as Scriptural, pp.73-86
6 James I. Packer - Contemporary Views of Revelation, pp.87-104
7 Alan M. Stibbs - The Witness of Scripture to its Inspiration, pp.105-118
8 Pierre Ch. Marcel - Our Lord's Use of Scripture, pp.119-134
9 Roger Nicole - New Testament Use of the Old Testament, pp.135-151
10 Edward J. Young - The Canon of the Old Testament, pp.153-168
11 G. Douglas Young - The Apocrypha, pp.169-185
12 Herman Ridderbos - The Canon of the New Testament, pp.187-201
13 Geoffrey W. Bromiley - The Church Doctrine of Inspiration, pp.203-217
14 R.A. Finlayson - Contemporary Ideas of Inspiration, pp.219-234
15 Everett F. Harrison - The Phenomena of Scripture, pp.235-250
16 Bernard Ramm - The Evidence of Prophecy and Miracle, 251-263
17 J. Theodore Mueller - The Holy Spirit and the Scriptures, pp.265-281
18 Ernest F. Kevan - The Principles of Interpretation, pp.283-298
19 Donald J. Wiseman - Archaeological Confirmation of the Old Testament, pp.299-316
20 F.F. Bruce - Archaeological Confirmation of the New Testament, pp.317-331
21 N.H. Ridderbos - Reversals of Old Testament Criticism, pp.333-350
22 Merrill C. Tenney - Reversals of New Testament Criticism, pp.351-367
23 J. Norval Geldenhuys - Authority and the Bible, pp.369-386
24 Frank E. Gaebelein - The Unity of the Bible, pp.87-401

A.N.S. Lane on B.B. Warfield and the Humanity of Scripture

The following article is now available in PDF:

A.N.S. Lane, "B.B. Warfield and the Humanity of Scripture," Vox Evangelica 16 (1986): 77-94.

Warfield's works on the the inspiration of Scripture have often been misunderstood. This article seeks to clarify his views based on an analysis of all of his writings on the subject.

Donald Guthrie on Biblical Authority and New Testament Scholarship

The following article is now available on-line in PDF:

Donald Guthrie, "Biblical Authority and New Testament Scholarship," Vox Evangelica 16 (1986): 7-25.

Guthrie provides, amongst other things, a critique of James Barr's writings on "Fundamentalism". Well worth a read.

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.

F.F. Bruce on the Authority and Power of the Bible

The following article is now on-line in PDF:

F.F. Bruce, "The Lausanne Covenant - 2: The Authority and Power of the Bible," The Harvester 55 (November 1976): 320-333.

F.F. Bruce explains and critiques the section of the Lausanne Covenant which deals with the authority and power of the Bible.

H.L. Ellison on Biblical Inspiration

The following article is now online in PDF:

H.L. Ellison, "Some Thoughts on Inspiration," The Evangelical Quarterly 26.4 (1954): 210-217.

This is my favourite quote [p.214}:

If we are prepared to say that the Scrip­tures contain, are and become the Word of God, we occupy a position which seems to cover all the facts of revelation and spiritual experience.

We are not, as some might think, making mere empty dis­tinctions. To call the Bible the Word of God without some such qualifications, spoken or understood, suggests that the work of inspiration ended with the finishing of the record, and that the Bible now functions by virtue of some inherent power, so that anything that man may infer from it is necessarily legitimate. We would do well to widen our conception of inspiration. The writing of the Scriptures was only the half-way house in the process of inspiration; it only reaches its goal and conclusion as God is revealed through them to the reader or hearer. In other words, the inbreathing of the Holy Spirit into the reader is as essential for the right understanding of the Scriptures as it was in the original writers for their right production of them.[1]

[1] This is the view adopted in The New Bible Handbook (I.V.F., 1947), p. 10.

F.F. Bruce on Biblical Inspiration

As promised, I have just uploaded the first of many articles from the Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute in PDF:

F.F. Bruce, M.A., "What Do We Mean By Biblical Inspiration?" Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute 78 (1946): 121-139.

The format is unusual as it is a lecture, followed by oral and written responses and then a conclusion by the author.