The 8th essay in our latest book - A Noble Company, volume 11 - is on James P. Boyce (1827-1888) by Tom Nettles

Boyce shared the intellectual outlook of his Gentlemen Theologian peers. He affirmed. . . .the authenticity of Scripture, its defensibility as revelation using rational arguments, the competence of the mind in engaging evidence, and the integrity of subject/object relationships as defined in Reid’s Common Sense philosophy. Reid’s understanding of corporate experience and rational discourse built on such experience was important in Boyce’s argument for the Bible as a deposit of revelation. Boyce joined the conservatives, and resisted the liberals, in affirming that each individual doctrine of Scripture, such as the Trinity, does not have to pass muster before the sentinel of reason as an autonomous authority, once the authority that affirms the doctrine, that is the Bible, has been authenticated as revelation. --Tom Nettles