Ancient Word, Changing Worlds: The Doctrine of Scripture in a Modern Age
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2. B. B. Warfield, “Inspiration,” International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 4 vols., ed. James Orr (Chicag Howard-Severance, 1915), 3:1473.

3. Edward A. Dowey Jr., The Knowledge of God in Calvin’s Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1974); John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book I.

4. Mark A. Noll, “The Image of the United States as a Biblical Nation, 1776–1865,” The Bible In America: Essays in Cultural History, ed. Nathan O. Hatch and Mark A. Noll (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), 39.

5. Joseph Henry Thayer, The Change of Attitude Towards the Bible (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1891), 10–11.

6. For a history of European rationalist criticism, see Roy A. Harrisville and Walter Sundberg,The Bible in Modern Culture: Baruch Spinoza to Brevard Childs (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002).

7. For a discussion of the 1881 Hodge and Warfield article, see Mark A. Noll, The Princeton Theology 1812–1921: Scripture, Science, and Theological Method from Archibald Alexander to Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2001), 218–231; Jack Rogers and Donald McKim, The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible: An Historical Approach (New York: Harper, 1979); Stanley Grenz, Revisioning Evangelical Theology: A Fresh Agenda for the 21st Century (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1993), 116.

8. A. A. Hodge and B. B. Warfield, “Inspiration,” The Presbyterian Review 2 (April 1881), 225– 260. The following quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from this article.

9. B. B. Warfield, “The Real Problem of Inspiration,” The Presbyterian and Reformed Review,4 (1893), 177–221. AncientWordCW.02606.i03.indd 31 1/8/09 11:06:36 AM

10. B. B. Warfield, “The Genuineness of Mark 16:9–20,” Sunday School Times 24, No. 48 (December 2, 1882): 755–756; Moisés Silva, “Old Princeton, Westminster, and Inerrancy,” Inerrancy and Hermeneutic: A Tradition, a Challenge, a Debate, ed. Harvie M. Conn (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1988), 68–69.

11. Harry Emerson Fosdick, The Modern Use of the Bible (New York: Macmillan, 1924), 272–273.

12. For the Warfield and Machen connection, see Stephen J. Nichols, “‘The Vital Processes of Controversy’: Warfield, Machen, and Fundamentalism,” in B. B. Warfield: Essays on His Life and Thought, ed. Gary L. W. Johnson (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2007), 169–194; see also Stephen J. Nichols, J. Gresham Machen: A Guided Tour of His Life and Thought (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2004). AncientWordCW.02606.i03.indd 36 1/8/09 11:06:36 AM

13. Donald G. Bloesch, Holy Scripture: Revelation, Inspiration, and Interpretation (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1994), 103.

14. B. B. Warfield, “The Century’s Progress in Biblical Knowledge,” reprinted in Benjamin B. Warfield, Selected Shorter Writings, 2 vols., ed. John H. Meeter (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 1970, 1973), 2:13.