Inerrancy and the Spiritual Formation of Younger Evangelicals. Carlos R. Bovell

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insidious to younger evangelicals when they discover or are made aware of its inherent methodological limitations.

      The limitations arise naturally on account of the dimension of religion that allows for mystery and paradox. Christianity, as a religion, will produce worldviews that are inevitably 1) inconsistent to varying degrees; 2) inherently plural; 3) “synthesis-frustraters.” Insistence upon the single import of worldview philosophy may be ironically unsettling younger evangelicals under the pretenses of more firmly grounding their beliefs. Evangelical leaders should more openly acknowledge worldview philosophy’s conceptual limitations when promulgating it to its young people in order not to unnecessarily further ostracize them in the course of their spiritual formation.

      I. Coherence

      The inherent mystery that attends these topics thins, if even marginally, the strands upon which Christian worldview philosophy is comprised. Such a marginal dwindling is enough, I hold, to undermine the worldview methodology to such a degree that its need for supplementation is intrinsic.

      II. Plurality


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