Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Peter Enns on WHYY

I'm listening to Marty Moss-Coane interview Peter Enns today. So far he has declared that "our tradition" "the Reformed tradition" does not hold that God is the sole author of Scripture. I wonder what he has been reading. I am reading B.B. Warfield's essay on the doctrine of Scripture in the Westminster Confession; he seems pretty clear that God is the sole author of Scripture. Gaffin's recent book on Kuyper and Bavinck's views of Scripture concludes pretty much the same thing. The Reformed tradition, at least as I learned it at WTS in the late 1970s holds that God is the author of Scripture. That belief does not negate the role of Moses, David, the prophets, Paul, John, Peter and those responsible for Kings and Chronicles. It seems to me that PE's tradition is not the tradition of Machen, Young and other Reformed biblical scholars.