Innerancy Anchor Point

Perhaps one of the most comprehensive (and best, although it is lengthy) definitions of inspirations is given by Louis Igou Hodges, “Evangelical Definitions of Inspiration: Critiques and a Suggested Definition,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 37/1 (March 1994): 99-114.

Graphic (written) inspiration is the activity by which that portion intended by God of his special revelation was put into permanent, authoritative, written form by the supernatural agency of the Holy Spirit, who normally worked concurrently and confluently through the spontaneous thought processes, literary styles, and personalities of certain divinely-selected men in such a way that the product of their special labors (in its entirety) is the very Word of God (both the ideas and the specific vocabulary), complete, infallible, and inerrant in the original manuscripts.