concluded that incorporating inerrancy in the very definition of inspiration was question begging. What question was begged? The question of whether a book fully inspired by God must be fully inerrant. So, what did those who denied inerrancy put in its place? Some were still comfortable with calling Scripture infallible (though not everyone defined that concept in the same way), and all who thought of themselves as evangelical affirmed Scripture’s authority—in some sense of authority. In fact, in
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