Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Warfields's Concursus

Warfield repeatedly argued that he was advocating not dictation but "concursus" - the principle that "the Scriptures are the joint product of divine and human activities, both of which penetrate them at ever point, working harmoniously together to the production of a writing which is not divine here and human there, but at once divine and human in every part, every word and every particular.

David Lingstone and Mark Noll, "B. B. Warfield (1851-1921): Biblical Inerrantist as Evolutionist", Isis Vol 91 no 2 (June 2000), p.289.
Quote from B B Warfield "The Divine and Human in the Bible" in Presbyterian Journal May 1894.

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