Also known as:
Biblical inerrancy, inerrancy of Scripture
INERRANCY. - Immunity from error, a gift enjoyed by the books of Sacred Scripture and which preserves them from every formal error. Inerrancy is distinguished into inerrancy facti (of fact) and inerrancy iuris (of right), according to whether only the presence of error in a particular case is excluded, or also its very possibility. Inerrancy iuris (also called inerrancy infallibilitatis) includes the other as well.
Since God is its author, by reason of inspiration, the Bible possesses the same inerrancy as God, that is, inerrancy iuris and inerrancy facti. The sources of Revelation place the foundation of biblical inerrancy in the divine origin of Sacred Scripture: being the word of God, it cannot err, otherwise the error would fall back on God. Inerrancy, although not solemnly defined, is a dogma of faith (cf. Decree of the Pontifical Biblical Commission of 24 February 1934, in AAS, 26 [1934], pp. 130-31). Inerrancy entails the logical truth of the content of the Bible, that is, its conformity with objective reality, according to that modality which God intends to express through the words of the hagiographer, from which one must establish the literary genre employed, since each literary genre has a determined degree of objectivity. The pontifical documents urge the exploration of the literary genres (v.), especially those of Genesis.
The presupposition of inerrancy is the veracity of the Bible, which therefore cannot deceive. Inerrancy concerns only the original text; it subsists in the versions to the extent that these reproduce it.
Inerrancy, in the last 70 years, has been the object of many challenges by reason of the conflicts with the sciences which provoked a more thorough study, giving rise to the so-called "biblical question" (v. BIBLICAL INSPIRATION).
Bibliography14 worksG. Bonaccorsi, Questioni bibliche, Bologna 1904; C. Pesch, De inspiratione S. Scriptura, Freiburg im Br. 1906, pp. 347-475, 489-511; id., Su
BIBL.: G. Bonaccorsi, Questioni bibliche, Bologna 1904; C. Pesch, De inspiratione S. Scriptura, Freiburg im Br. 1906, pp. 347-475, 489-511; id., Supplementum continens disputationes recentiores et decreta de inspiratione Scriptura, ibid. 1926, pp. 13-68; F. Egger, Absolute und relative Wahrheit der hl. Schrift, Brixen 1909; F. Albanese, La verità nelle S. Scritture e le questioni bibliche, Palermo 1925; id., La Bibbia scevra di errore contiene alcune inaccuratezze, ibid. 1929; id., Le questioni bibliche alla luce della esegesi tradizionale, ibid. 1949; E. Florit, Ispirazione e i. biblica, Rome 1943; F. S. Porporato, La S. Scrittura e le scienze, Chieri 1944; id., Miti e ispirazione biblica, ibid. 1944; A. Bea, Inspiration et inférence, in DBs, IV, coll. 520-59; A. Van Rooy, De inerrantia S. Scriptura, in Collectanea Bicchliotensia, 33 (1948), pp. 158-60; Eufrasto di Cristo Re, I generi letterari e l'encicl. « Divino afflante Spiritu », in Questioni bibliche alla luce dell'encicl. « Divino afflante Spiritu », I, Rome 1949, pp. 1-30; G. Castellino, L'i. della S. Scrittura, Turin 1949.
Mariani, Bonaventura. “Inerranza.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 1920. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/inerranza.
MLA
Mariani, Bonaventura. “Inerranza.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1920. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/inerranza.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec6_inerranza,
author = {Mariani, Bonaventura},
title = {Inerranza},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {1920},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/inerranza}
}
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