Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy

At a conference sponsored by the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy (ICBI) and held in Chicago in October 1978, more than 200 evangelical leaders formulated the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. The statement was designed to defend the position of Biblical inerrancy against a perceived trend toward liberal conceptions of Scripture. Those signing the statement came from a variety of evangelical Christian denominations, and included Robert Preus, James Montgomery Boice, Kenneth Kantzer, J. I. Packer, Francis Schaeffer, R. C. Sproul and John F. MacArthur.

Leading inerrantists regard the Chicago Statement as a very thorough statement of what they mean by "inerrancy". The Statement elaborates on various details in articles formed as couplets of "We affirm..." and "We deny...". Under the statement, inerrancy applies only to the original manuscripts (which no longer exist, but which can be inferred on the basis of extant copies), not to the copies or translations themselves. In the Statement, inerrancy does not refer to a blind literal interpretation, but allows for figurative, poetic and phenomenological language, depending on whether one can detect an author's intent to present a passage as literal or symbolic.

Jay Rogers has compared the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy to the Second Vatican Council Decree Dei verbum in addressing issues of the historical critical method and affirming inerrancy.[1]

List of signers

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  1. ↑ Rogers, Jay Frank Schaeffer Will You Please Shut Up!, p. PA82, at Google Books "[...] the Roman Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council ratified a similar document in 1965 called Dei Verbum (The Word of God) in which the problems inherent in the approach of the historical critical method are addressed and the principle of inerrancy is affirmed."

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