I posted earlier some of my thoughts on Biblical inerrancy.
Michael Bird does a much better job at https://michaelfbird.substack.com/p/saving-inerrancy-from-the-americans
Here are some highlights from his post, but you should read them in context to be fair.
“However, in some circles of American evangelicalism, inerrancy is more than a useful doctrine, it is the center and sum of a theological universe. American evangelicals demand a rigid precision for inerrancy not shared by the global church, they position inerrancy rather than christology as the chief marker of orthodoxy, and they police inerrancy in their networks with a Taliban-esque ferocity.”
“However, while many American evangelicals preached the inerrancy of the text, what they often practiced was the inerrancy of their interpretation and the hegemony of their tribe in certain denominations. “
“Scriptural infallibility is far too important to leave it to the Americans to use as a weapon for eliminating intra-evangelical rivals. The doctrine of Scripture needs to be de-Americanized to be made safe to use in the global church. We need to save Scripture from the American culture wars, their tribalism, borderline bibliolatry, their gatekeepers of power and patronage, weird shibboleths, and myopic fixations.”
First posted January 12, 2022
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