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  • That it consists in a theopneustia, an immediate infallible inspiration and afflatus, of the same nature with that of the prophets and apostles of old.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • The subject-matter of divine, prophetical revelation by a theopneustia, or

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • [56] So the apostle speaks of the prophecies recorded in the Scripture, 2 Tim.iii. 16: theopneustia, divine inspiration, was the original and cause of it.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • According to them, the ancient dogma of the theopneustia is not to be reformed, but given up altogether.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • A movement back to the old idea of the theopneustia, including verbal inspiration, set in nearly everywhere in the first half of the nineteenth century.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • Anglican scholars, may be reduced to the following heads: (a) the purely passive, mechanical theopneustia, extending to the very words, is no longer tenable. (b) Inspiration had degrees: suggestion, direction, elevation, and superintendency.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • I must point out to _Phil_. an oversight of his as to this word at p. 45; he there describes the doctrine of _theopneustia_ as being that of 'plenary and _verbal_ inspiration,' But this he cannot mean, for obviously this word _theopneustia_ comprehends equally the verbal inspiration which he is denouncing, and the inspiration of power or spiritual virtue which he is substituting.

    Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • Neither _Phil_., nor any one of his school, is to be understood as rejecting _theopneustia_, but as rejecting that particular mode of _theopneustia_ which appeals to the eye by mouldering symbols, in favor of that other mode which appeals to the heart by incorruptible radiations of inner truth.] (_theopneustia_), or divine prompting, so as to reconcile the doctrine affirming a

    Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

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