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One unfortunate consequence of the bitter fundamentalist-modernist controversy which raged in the early twenties has been the strongly negative attitude toward biblical criticism assumed by some of the successors to the fundamentalists of the 1920s. Such people, according to Professor Ladd, insist that the critical method is basically hostile to the evangelical faith, and they have continued to...

upon the Word of God rather than allowing the Word to be his judge? In brief, is the Bible as the Word of God open to any kind of criticism? If the fact that God has given men His inspired Word through historical processes requires a reverent but realistic biblical criticism, does this not by definition involve a criticism of the Bible as God’s Word? Such questions may seem naive to some readers of this book; but they are questions which vitally concern and disturb many evangelicals to whom the Bible
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