Neo-Orthodoxy (3 of 4 notes)

Part One
INTRODUCTION: 5 CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

This brings us back to our original thesis that the point of departure of all modern theologies from orthodoxy is attitude toward the Bible. Liberalism or Modernism, through the claims of Destructive Criticism, has made it a purely human book full of errors and contradictions. Orthodoxy believes it to be the infallible, verbally inspired Word of God. Neo-orthodoxy holds to a synthesis of both views. Ryrie also quotes Hendry concerning the Orthodox view of inspiration: “This view issued in the notorious doctrine of verbal infallibility, which lay for so long like a blight upon the Protestant Church. It is the great and undisputed merit of modern criticism that it demolished this doctrine and rediscovered the human character of the Bible.’’⁸

8            lbid., p. 47.

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