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==Background== Historically, Jewish and Christian interpreters of the Bible have seen it as reliable and trustworthy, but such views do not equate veracity with historicity, scientificity or even facticity.<ref>Brettler, Marc Zvi.(2013). Biblical Authority: A Jewish Pluralistic View. TheTorah.com. https://thetorah.com/article/biblical-authority-a-jewish-pluralistic-view</ref> The idea of biblical infallibility gained ground in [[Protestant]] churches as a [[fundamentalist]] reaction against a general movement towards [[Christian modernism|modernism]] within mainstream Christian denominations in the 19th and early 20th centuries.<ref>'The development of the ideas of 'biblical infallibility' or 'inerrancy' within Protestantism can be traced to the US in the middle of the 19th Century.' McGrath, Alister. Christian theology: an introduction. Fifth edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, p.136</ref> In the Catholic church, the reaction produced the concept of [[papal infallibility]] whereas, in the [[evangelical]] churches, the infallibility of the Bible was asserted.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=DDbdltnokfsC&dq=fundamentalism+infallibility&pg=PA47 Ruthven, M., ''Fundamentalism: A Very Short Introduction'', Oxford University Press, 2007, p.47.]</ref> "Both movements represent a synthesis of a theological position and an ideological-political stance against the erosion of traditional authorities. Both are ''antimoderne'' and literalist."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=FBVCgetqZAAC&dq=fundamentalism+infallibility+papal&pg=PA84 Kaplan, L., ''Fundamentalism in Comparative Perspective'', Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1992, p. 84.]</ref> <blockquote>No matter how little common ground was apparent at the time between Roman Catholicism and the Evangelical Right, these two reformulations of scriptural and papal supremacy represented a defiant assertiveness in reaction against the crisis of religious authority that was engulfing Western religion.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=j1UW7fPz3REC&q=infallibility&pg=PA127 Warner, R., ''Secularization and Its Discontents'', A&C Black, 2010, p.19.]</ref></blockquote>
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