Ghostbusters
May 28, 2008
I came across this quote in reading Charles Briggs's infamous inaugural address, "The Authority of Holy Scripture" (1891), the address that led to his ouster from the PCUSA: "[The theory of inerrancy] is a ghost of modern evangelicalism to frighten children."
So I asked my five-year old and recently turned four-year-old if they thought the word inerrancy to be scary. One looked puzzled, one laughed. Turns out Briggs is wrong (again).