Excerpt from The Rule of Faith: And the Doctrine of Inspiration, the Carey Lectures for 1884 Recent writers of this class of apologists have, generally, laid claim to superior learning and high attainments in Philosophy, and have spoken of the time-honoured doctrine of Verbal Inspiration as an antiquated dogma that has deservedly lost its hold upon the learning and intelligence of the age. 50 persistently have these claims to superior culture and acquirements been put forward, that many have taken the claimants at their ...
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Excerpt from The Rule of Faith: And the Doctrine of Inspiration, the Carey Lectures for 1884 Recent writers of this class of apologists have, generally, laid claim to superior learning and high attainments in Philosophy, and have spoken of the time-honoured doctrine of Verbal Inspiration as an antiquated dogma that has deservedly lost its hold upon the learning and intelligence of the age. 50 persistently have these claims to superior culture and acquirements been put forward, that many have taken the claimants at their own estimate, and have concluded that all the learning and Philosophy are on the side of the anti-verbalists, and that none, save the unlearned and unphiiosophical, could enter tain the doctrine of a Plenary, Verbal Inspiration. Such boasting is as baseless as it is vain. Great attainments in Language and extensive acquaintance with Literature are valuable acquisitions, but as such accomplishments depend more upon memory than upon judgment, they furnish no guarantee of the soundness of the Critical conclusions reached by their possessors. A man may have mastered many languages, and may be acquainted with the entire critical apparatus known to the scholarship of the day, and may, at the same time, prove a most untrustworthy guide in any department of know. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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