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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