Some critics say that the doctrine of inerrancy was the creation of Protestants in the seventeenth century, which is sometimes called “the age of Protestant scholasticism,” corresponding to the era of secular philosophy called “the age of reason.” These critics claim that inerrancy as a rational construct was foreign to the biblical writers and even to the magisterial Reformers of the sixteenth century. However, the Reformers did declare the Scriptures to be without error, as did the church fathers,