Challenges to Inerrancy: A Theological Response

Lewis and Demarest have compiled some good essays on the historical development of criticism of the Bible from the Enlightenment period to today (although the "today" was 1984). What I enjoyed (maybe because I am a little bit of a history junkie) is the great essays on the history of Bible critics from different view points, such as the Englightenment critique, the problems that Romanticists saw, Liberalism, and all the way up to Liberation Theology and its shaky view of Scripture (if they did an update to the book, they could add a chapter on the Emergent Church postmodern critique, primarily of how unreliable "language" is; to do this they may need to allow R. Scott Smith or D.A. Carson to write it, who both wrote separately at length on the subject). Each chapter took us on a railroad ride through the corruption of inerrancy of the Bible due to that particular view, and then shows a response and critique of those viewpoints based on their biased situations they were coming from. I was expecting a little more defense on inerrancy, but the book took a different turn and instead taught me a lot about the presuppositions behind the critique of the Bible's inerrancy which stimulated my own thought on the matter. So, this book is more for the well read reader who has some background and some love in the history of thought. I happen to be one of those and so I rated it five stars.