The Baha'i Studies Listserv On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Mark A. Foster <[email protected]> wrote:
> The Baha'i Studies Listserv > Ursus Maximus wrote: > >> This is the first time I've encountered the term "plenary inerrancy'. I >> would appreciate it if you would expand on this term and its application to >> our Faith. It is important to me. >> > > Hi, Ron: > > In Protestantism, there are two major views of inerrancy: verbal plenary > inerrancy and nonverbal plenary inerrancy. The first one refers to the view > that the biblical autographs (the original manuscripts of the Bible) were > word-for-word inerrant. The second is the view that the ideas or concepts, > but not necessarily the precise words, are inerrant. All fundamentalists (by > definition) and most conservative evangelicals subscribe to verbal plenary > inerrancy. More moderate and liberal evangelicals may support a nonverbal > plenary inerrancy. Sorry for nit-picking but isn't the second category non-plenary inerrancy? In other others, the "verbal" part is a little bit redundant since we are talking about a scripture which consists of words. The distinction is whether you want to say that text is completely inerrant in everything it expresses (plenary inspiration) or is it only inerrant in some aspects but not necessarily in others (non-plenary). Although if you are talking about the Bahai faith I suppose the adjective "verbal" becomes more important since I've heard some suggest that the "infallibility" or ismat of the UHJ was not so much a matter of all their verbal statements being true but more a matter of them being sinless / correct /appropriate /guided in their actions. > -G > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:[email protected] Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
