Promise Unfulfilled | Rolland McCune
by Matt McCarnan on August 1st, 2007
Rolland McCune. Promise Unfulfilled: The Failed Strategy of Evangelicalism. Ambassador-Emerald, 2004. 398 pp.
Biblical Inspiration and Inerrancy
Concessions concerning inspiration and inerrancy, especially inerrancy, are where the principal departures of some new evangelicals lie and where the deviations are most visibly pronounced, and destructive. Non-evangelicals have been quick to notice the concessions. L. Harold DeWolf, a liberal from Boston University, in 1960 noted “revisions” in the “fundamentalist” view of inspiration, as did John B. Cobb and William Hordern (neo-orthodox).1
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- L. Harold Dewolf, Present Trends in Christian Thought (New York: Association Press, 1960), pp. 45, 55-56. John B. Cobb, Review of The Case for Orthodox Theology, by E. J. Carnell, Interpretation 14 (1960), pp. 94-96. William Hordern, New Directions in Theology Today (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1966), pp. 80-89. See also the assessment of James Davison Hunter, a sociologist who interviewed students from several evangelical educational institutions (Evangelicalism: The Corning Generation [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987], p. 31). [↩]
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