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      Inerrancy and the Spiritual Formation of Younger Evangelicals

      Carlos R. Bovell

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      Inerrancy and the Spiritual Formation

      of Younger Evangelicals

      Copyright © 2007 Carlos R. Bovell. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf & Stock, 199 W. 8th Ave., Eugene, OR 97401.

      ISBN 10: 1-59752-861-7

      ISBN 13: 978-1-59752-861-0

      EISBN 13: 978-1-4982-7098-4

      Chapter four contains a slightly modified form of “Eucharist Then, Scripture Now: How Evangelicals can Learn from an Old Controversy.” Evangelical Review of Theology 30 (2006): 322–338. Used by permission.

      Scripture quotations marked NASB are taken from the New American Standard Bible. Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org)

      Scripture quotations marked REB are taken from the Revised English Bible. Copyright © Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press 1989.

      Unless marked otherwise, Scripture references are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

      Extracts from The Book of Common Prayer, the rights in which are vested in the Crown, are reproduced by permission of the Crown’s Patentee, Cambridge University Press.

      Manufactured in the U.S.A.

      Preface

      “Biblical authority—as manifest in the discursive practice of framing one’s speech in relation to the Bible—is one of the foundational assumptions of evangelical communities, one of the practices in which community members, in order to be community members, participate.”

      “The Bible alone could not carry all the freight of born-again Protestantism because many mainline Protestants also believed in the Bible alone. Therefore, the Bible inerrant became evangelicalism’s creed.”

      “While it was relatively easy for the rank and file to believe in inerrancy, it was nearly impossible for most of them to prove it. It was enough to know that there were trusted teachers who could.”

      “The entire experience of opening the windows just a little bit and letting the fresh breezes of honest doubt blow through the musty dogma of biblical inerrancy had proved to be profoundly unsettling.”

      The popular argument developed by Weber’s “rank and file” believers seems to go something like this:

      Younger evangelicals, however, are increasingly flirting with a third option: perhaps inerrancy itself has been misunderstood. After all, they do not have the financial, ecclesiastical and institutional stakes of their professors and pastors. However, they still suffer many of the same existential and communal risks as their leaders. I have written this book to help urge evangelical leaders and teachers to more actively support the fledgling disbelievers among them in their search for ways out of wholesale liberalism or even total unbelief. Leaders and teachers play an important role in the spiritual development of their students. In fact, many times it becomes their spiritual responsibility to engage candidly with those who are struggling.

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