D.B. Knox: The Authority of the Bible — Pt 1

Posted on January 27, 2017 
Filed under Theology

From a lecture to the Evangelical Union, Sydney University, as appeared in The Australian Church Record, November 18, 1948.

“The subject I have chosen is the authority of the Bible, and I propose to deal:

1. Content of Authority.
2. The reasons for giving the Bible that authority.

The first part can be dealt with in a sentence or two. As the Presbyterian Confession of Faith has it: ‘The Bible is given by inspiration of God to be the rule of faith and life,’ or as the Church of England puts it in her Articles ‘Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary for Salvation,‘…”

– Read Part 1 at The Australian Church Record.

(Photo: D. Broughton Knox in Sydney in 1956.)