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It is not merely in the matter of verbal expressions or literary
It is not merely in the matter of verbal expressions or literary composition that the personal idiosyncrasies of each author are freely manifested by ...

When you are that close to a text, its original language(s), and
When you are that close to a text, its original language(s), and all the trappings of its interrelated cultures, previously clear theological formulat...

So long as faith is something that withstands the assaults of
So long as faith is something that withstands the assaults of reason, experience, secularization, or even simply the slow erosion of certainty within ...

[It] is not up to us, it is up to the free pleasure of God to
[It] is not up to us, it is up to the free pleasure of God to decide what kind of effect divine inspiration should have on the mind, knowledge, memory...

A great deal of the naturalness of the Bible has been lost owing
A great deal of the naturalness of the Bible has been lost owing to the rigid theories that have so long prevailed....How touchingly would come to us,...

To try to suppress the human side of the Bible in the interests of
To try to suppress the human side of the Bible in the interests of the purity of the Divine Word is as great a folly as to think that a fathers talk w...

We might have expected, we may think we might have preferred, an
We might have expected, we may think we might have preferred, an unrefracted light giving us ultimate truth in systematic form--something we could hav...

The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naïvety,
The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naïvety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The...

A mans doubt, if it be candid doubt, may be such a gift of God as
A mans doubt, if it be candid doubt, may be such a gift of God as other peoples belief, and may ultimately accomplish as [sic] widespread good...and t...