The Rise of Hier Critical Methodologies in the Church in the United States

There has been a serious, progressive erosion of regard for the authority of the bible. This became particularly evident among the more americanized church bodies in the united states during the third and fourth decades of this century. By the 19 fifties it was also beginning to become an evident problem among lutheran churches as well. The greater need for insistence upon the total dependability and reliability of scripture called forth a need for historic christian and lutheran conceptions such as inherency and infallibility.