The Reformed View of the Scriptures

THE doctrine of Scripture is one of perennial interest to evangelical people, and most properly so, since it is to Scripture alone that they look for the rule of faith and life. Experience suggests, indeed, that some who pub'ish their thoughts on this subject-and not least in THE EVANGELICAL QUARTERLY-take their lives in their hands when they do so. But we are happy to publish this study by Professor Peter, of Emmanuel College in the University of Queensland, the more so because we think that the opening chapter of the "Westminster Confession of Faith", which he is concerned to expound in this article, is the finest statement of the doctrine of Scripture that has ever been published. The article is not presented as a definitive statement, but rather as a contribution to the very important debate now proceeding in regard to the doctrine of Scripture, which has found expression, i.e., in A. G. Hebert's "Fundamenta'ism and the Church of God" and J. I. Packer's "Fundamentalism and the Word of God", or in the more recent Bristol disputation "Is the Bible Infallible1" by J. W. Wen ham and R. E. Davies.