Is Christ infallible and the Bible true? / by Hugh M'Intosh. [print]

Introduction -- Christ's place in theology, and Christ and the controversies: The prominence of Christ in recent theology -- Christ's place as a religious teacher: unique -- Review of recent speculation on the teaching of Jesus from the standpoint of Christ's supremacy -- The sermon on the mount: its place in revelation and in the teaching of Jesus -- Principal A.M. Fairbairn's views and cognate views: "The place of Christ in modern theology" -- Dr. Fairbairn's improved restatement of the mind of Christ -- The Ritschlians' and similar views -- Christ's teaching on Holy Scripture -- Is Christ infallible as a teacher: The seriousness of the question, and when it is raised -- The errorists' alleged grounds of Christ's fallibility, and their manifest untenableness -- The disproof of the theory from Scripture, and the proof of his infallibility -- The assumed grounds in reason for Christ's errancy, and erroneousness, and the momentousness of the issues -- The logical conclusions and momentous issues of all theories denying or questioning Christ's infallibility -- The state of the question (status quaestionis): the Bible claim and preliminary proof: General misconceptions and misrepresentations: opposite extremes -- Misconceptions and confusions -- Confusing truthfulness with scientific accuracy and absolute perfection -- Misrepresentations and caricatures -- Indefinite erroneousness alleged in great and essential things -- How easy and necessary the descent from all theories of indefinite erroneousness to rationalism and scepticism -- The status quaestionis -- The Bible claim and general proof: the truthfulness, trustworthiness, and divine authority of Holy Scripture: Preliminary considerations -- The locus classicus on the question -- The general and specific scripture proof -- Remarks on and teaching of the evidence -- What this evidence settles -- The opposing views stated and contrasted apologetically: the apologetic positions and the sceptic's apology and reply: The Bible claims to be true, trustworthy, and of divine authory: Christ endorses that claim -- The constrasted apologetic positions -- The testimony of the Spirit, and the sceptic's apology: second and third stages -- The defence of Christianity from the inerrantists' position -- The contrasted positions compared apologetically: indefinite erroneousness and thorough truthfulness -- The defence of the Christian faith from the standpoint of Christ, and the Bible claim -- The essential rationalism of all theories of the indefinite erroneousness of Scripture: The avowedly and practically rationalistic theories -- The partially and implicitly rationalistic theories -- Varieties and modifications of the errorists' theories -- Difficulties and objections, additional confirmations, resume, cumulative argument.

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