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A High View of Scripture?: The Authority of the Bible and the Formation of the New Testament Canon is unavailable, but you can change that!

For most evangelicals, a key tenet of belief is a “high view of Scripture,” often defined as adherence to a verbal plenary inspiration view, along with the subsequent doctrine of inerrancy this view assumes. In this thought-provoking book, Craig Allert questions whether this view is in fact high enough. In particular, he averts that our view of the Bible has not been sufficiently informed by how...

express utterances of God, owing their origin to his direct spiration and their character to this their divine origin.37 The problem with adopting the same understanding of inspiration as Philo is that it advocates a dictation model, which most evangelicals would not care to advocate.38 Hence, it is important to note that Paul did not use the same terms as Philo, and by using different terms than Philo, there is the distinct possibility that Paul was trying to get across a different understanding
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