The Problem with Inerrancy

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I have just published a book, Inerrancy and the Spiritual Formation of
Younger Evangelicals, with Wipf and Stock Publishers. Written from the
point of view of an evangelical student, it is a cumulative pragmatic
argument directed at conservative evangelical leaders and teachers to
think again about presenting the ETS doctrine of Scripture as a watershed
issue for evangelical Christianity.

Over the past ten years I have attended Philadelphia College of Bible,
Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological
Seminary (I am now at the Institute for Christian Studies). I have also
been in contact with professors and leaders from other conservative
institutions and have found that not only are younger evangelicals
spiritually debilitated by the ramifications of an implied conservative
ultimatum (inerrancy or unbelief), but the leaders and teachers
themselves often don't believe in the inerrancy that their institutions so
adamantly stand for!

In my book I urge readers to pastorally consider their own spiritual
responsibilities toward students by presenting six representative critical
discoveries that students tend to make during the course of their higher
education. By doing this, it is hoped that leaders and teachers might
become more sensitive to the reality that younger evangelicals are not
"already" convinced of the Bible's inerrancy and may even be secretly and
frantically searching for a bibliological alternative. They should accordingly
offer them acceptably orthodox alternatives for understanding the authority
of the Bible.
-Carlos Bovell

"The Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written and is
therefore inerrant in the autographs." - doctrinal statement of Evangelical
Theological Society