in Christ." It goes without saying that presently some, but not all copies & translations contain errors. But Brunner's illustration was, "If you buy a phonograph record you are told that you will hear the Master Caruso. Is that true? Of course! But really his voice? Certainly!" Brunner kept emphatically writing, "[T]he Bible[...] makes the real Master's voice audible,—really his voice, his words, what he wants to say. Men's personalities can be discerned in Bible, just as Brunner wrote, "[...] God speaks His Word through the voice of man. Paul, Peter, Isaiah and Moses are such men." Brunner ultimately concludes that, "Only a fool listens to the incidental noises when he might listen to his Master's voice!" The Neo-orthodox doctrine of inspiration views the Bible as "the words of God". This view was a reaction to the Modernist doctrine, which Neo-orthodox proponents argue eroded the value and significance of the Christian faith. Karl Barth (1886–1968) was another one of the primary advocates of Neo-othodoxy. Other viewpoints A 2011 Gallup survey reports, "A 49% plurality of Americans say the Bible is the inspired word of God but that it should not be taken literally, consistently the most common view in Gallup's nearly 40-year history of this question." See also Biblical inerrancy Biblical infallibility Internal consistency of the Bible General revelation Progressive revelation (Christianity) Thought inspiration Verbum Domini - apostolic exhortation of the Pope Benedict XVI. References Bibliography Warfield, B. B. (1977 reprint). Inspiration and Authority of Bible, with a lengthy introductory essay by Cornelius Van Til. . Sproul, R. C. Hath God Said? (Video series). Geisler, Norman, ed. (1980). Inerrancy. . Further reading External links "The Authority & Inspiration of the Scriptures" by B. B. Warfield "God-Inspired Scripture" by B. B. Warfield The Inspiration Of Scripture by Loraine Boettner The Divine Inspiration of the Bible by Arthur Pink "The Protestant Rule of Faith", chapter 6 of the introduction from Charles Hodge's Systematic Theology, which argues for the traditional doctrine over and against the Modernist doctrine. Bibliography for and on-line articles about inspiration Scholarly articles on Biblical Inspiration from the Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Library Catholic Encyclopedia, Modernism Christian theology of the Bible Christian terminology Evangelical theology