FROM SCHOLASTIC PROPOSITIONALISM TO NEO-EVANGELICAL INERRANCY Beginning in the 1820s, the reticence to theologize about the Bible began to wane. Some theologians came to insist that the truly evangelical approach to Scripture includes the affirmation of verbal inspiration and biblical inerrancy, together with a literalist hermeneutic. The roots of this growing focus lay in the post-Reformation era known as Protestant scholasticism. The scholastic defense of the Bible. The ongoing controversy with
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