Inerrantist

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who believes in the inerrancy of religious scripture.

    "Both the errantist and the inerrantist, each in his own way, allows the conviction that geocentricism is false to shape his interpretation of what God was saying by way of that passage from Psalm 93."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to such beliefs.

    "Theologians who reject the inerrantist view of the Bible have pointed out several problems with it."

Example

More examples

"Both the errantist and the inerrantist, each in his own way, allows the conviction that geocentricism is false to shape his interpretation of what God was saying by way of that passage from Psalm 93."

Etymology

From inerrant + -ist.

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