modern errancy are to be found in the philosophical soil of the seventeenth century.1 From here the errancy position has spread gradually down through the centuries to our own day. FRANCIS BACON—INDUCTIVISM* About one hundred years after the Reformation, Francis Bacon (1561–1626) published his famous Novum Organum (1620) in which he set the stage for modern biblical criticism and the denial of the full authority and inerrancy of the Bible. Inerrancy is undermined in several ways in this work. Bacon
Page 12