HOW DID ETS BEGIN?
The impetus for this fellowship came from the faculty members of Gordon Divinity School, who proposed that conservative scholars meet regularly for biblical and theological discussion. As a result, sixty evangelical scholars convened in Cincinnati, December 27-28, 1949. Representing a wide variety of schools and affiliations, they drafted a constitution, and thus formed the Evangelical Theological Society. While denominational loyalties and doctrinal orientations were widely divergent, there was no disposition whatever to compromise on the one matter which all delegates considered of supreme importance, the inerrancy of the Scriptures. Hence, the creedal statement was narrowed to a single fundamental: “The Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written and is therefore inerrant in the autographs.
