Exegetical Fallacies by D. A. Carson

Author:D. A. Carson [Carson, D. A.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, pdf
Tags: REL006160
ISBN: 9781585582808
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 1996-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

In fact, not only in this paragraph but also throughout the entire book Hodges has assumed that there is a disjunction between grace and demand. He never wrestles with the possibility (in my view, the dead certainty) that in spiritual matters grace and demand are not necessarily mutually incompatible: everything depends on their relations, purposes, functions. The result of this assumed disjunction in Hodge’s thought is not only what is in my judgment a false thesis—that the Bible teaches a person may be eternally saved even though there is not a scrap of evidence for it in his or her life—but also an array of exegetical and historical judgments that are extremely problematic.

2. Failure to recognize distinctions

A fine example of this fallacy—the fallacy that argues that because x and y are alike in certain respects they are alike in all respects—occurs in a recent article by David C. Steinmetz:

Women may be forbidden to preach, teach, and celebrate the eucharist only if it can be demonstrated from Scripture that in Christ there is indeed male and female (contra Paul) and that in the last days sons shall prophesy while daughters demurely keep silent (contra Peter). Women already belong to a royal priesthood. Otherwise they are not even members of the church.[12]

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