The Castle Church Door

For his post on Charles Hodge and the Phenomena of Scripture. Gary Johnson alerted me to this post, which, ironically, I had requested Jeff Waddington to request Paul Helm to post. There are few men alive who are better acquainted with Charles Hodge than Paul Helm is.

For his post on Charles Hodge and the Phenomena of Scripture. Gary Johnson alerted me to this post, which, ironically, I had requested Jeff Waddington to request Paul Helm to post. There are few men alive who are better acquainted with Charles Hodge than Paul Helm is.

is the focus of Dr. Scott Oliphint’s critique of I&I.

This post is all Dr. Gaffin, not me. He has graciously allowed me to post this on my website. Comments are turned off, as Dr. Gaffin does not wish to be required to respond to comments. Observations on a Controversy The publication in mid-2005 of Inspiration and Incarnation by Dr. Enns left me in a difficult position. The second paragraph of its Preface (p. 9), fairly read, leaves the impression ...

This post is all Dr. Gaffin, not me. He has graciously allowed me to post this on my website. Comments are turned off, as Dr. Gaffin does not wish to be required to respond to comments. Observations on a Controversy The publication in mid-2005 of Inspiration and Incarnation by Dr. Enns left me in a difficult position. The second paragraph of its Preface (p. 9), fairly read, leaves the impression ...

Simply put, Kline uses Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) sources in order to further the interpretation of the Old Testament. The doctrine of Scripture itself, however, comes from Scripture alone, for Kline. In his book, The Structure of Biblical Authority, for instance, Kline has these things to say: The formation of the canon, rather than being a matter of conciliar decision or a series of such decisions with respect to a preexisting literature, ...

I was given a short piece by Jeff Jue (a professor of church history at WTS) and Lane Tipton (a professor of systematic theology at WTS). I have their permission to write up a summary of their arguments. Their thesis is that Enns’s doctrine of Scripture is out of accord with WCF 1:4-5 and 1:9. Their first point is that extra-biblical evidence does not feed into what our doctrine of Scripture is. ...

Pete Enns has started to release a sort of summary, or “series of distillations” of his 38 page response. This first installment’s main point seems to be that Pete Enns holds to the authority of Scripture, and that the authority of Scripture was not really the main point of his book (though he affirms the authority of Scripture in that post). He says that the humanity of Scripture ...

There is one thing here that I have to say, and I don’t think it has been said enough as I’ve watched the drama unfold at Westminster. Let’s say that the problem was much more clear-cut than it is (and I still think that the problem is clear). Let’s say that a professor at WTS was denying outright that Jesus is God. What steps would the seminary have to take ...