![]() ![]() Graf posted the basis for the JEPD theory.ġ878 – The Niagara Bible Conference produced The 1878 Niagara Creed in opposition to the modernist movement. The idea that Genesis 1-11 contained errors of fact and science gained popularity.ġ866 – K. It’s popularity in the English-speaking world makes many English-speaking Church leaders begin to think that Genesis 1-11 contains many scientific and factual errors.ġ860 – The Oxford Evolution Debate between Huxley and Wilberforce is regarded by many as the key moment in the UK (and perhaps the English-speaking world) when the majority of academics accepted the Darwinian theory of evolution. Bauer applied dialectic to Peter and Paul.ġ838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered a famous address to Harvard Divinity School (then a bastion of Unitarianism) and Transcendentalism made a major impact upon the school.ġ859 – Charles Darwin published Origin of the Species. Warfield, and John Gresham Machen.ġ820 – Boston’s Congregationalists renounced Calvinism for Unitarianismġ830s – F.C. It would be carried on through Charles Hodge, B.B. ġ803 – Harvard Divinity School starts to shift from Calvinist Trinitarian to anti-Calvinist Unitarian.ġ804 – Johann Eichorn – critical introduction to New Testamentġ811 – “Old-Princeton Theology” (which held to its Calvinist heritage against the forces of higher criticism, modernism, and theological liberalism) began with Archibald Alexander. Witter argued for two different accounts of creation between Genesis 1 and 2.ġ753 – Jean Astruc posited many different writers for the book of Genesis.ġ711-1776 – David Hume‘s radical empiricism increases skepticism about all things miraculous and increases the scholarly impulse to be embarrassed about anything supernatural in the Bible. From those roots the seeds of errancy spread to Richard Simon, a Priest who is often called the “Father of Biblical Criticism.” (Simon was also influenced by Louis Cappel, Johannes Morinus, and Alfonso Salmeron.)ġ711 – H. Spinoza’s anti-supernatural rationalism laid the groundwork of modern biblical criticism in the late 1670s. Spinoza’s works would become influential many decades after his death. Separated religion and science.ġ670s – Benedict Spinozapublishes writings which reject the literal interpretation of the Bible, reinterpret God in a pantheistic or panentheistic sense, rejects the miraculous, and argues that the Bible contains errors and contradictions. Engaged in higher criticism of the Bible. ![]() Taught that the Bible has absurdities that must be accepted by blind faith. Forerunner to Hume’s skeptical empiricism and logical positivism. He also drove a wedge between science and the Bible.ġ650s? – Thomas Hobbes. ![]() Set the stage for modern biblical criticism and the denial of the full authority and inerrancy of the Bible. ġ620 – Novum Organum by Francis Bacon published. Galileo helps popularize the view that the Bible is true in telling people on how to get to heaven (spiritual matters) but does not inform us on how the heavens go (scientific fact). ![]() 1632 – Galileo ordered to appear before the Inquisition. 1616 – The Roman Catholic Church condemned Galileo’s discovery that challenged their idea of a geo-centric universe. While attacks by critics of the Bible as having errors in it go back to at least the third century AD, with Porphyry the Neo-Platonist, prior to the year 1860 AD, the idea that the books of the Bible were inspired, infallible, and inerrant (without error) was the prevalent view among Christians.ġ610 – The Copernican Revolution begins. ![]()
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