Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode we will be in the 20th century visiting with James Montgomery Bois.

Dr Bois was born on July 7, 1938.

He lived in a bedroom community of Pittsburgh.

He was quite a high school athlete.

His dad was a doctor and positioned Bois for a fine education. As a high school student, Bois was sent to the Stony Brook School in New York. He was mentored by Frank E. Gabeline, a biblical scholar and theologian in his own right.

Well, after Stony Brook, Boyce went to Harvard for his undergraduate, and then he went to Princeton for his MDV.

After that, he was on his way to Basel

for a PhD in theology.

Well, while he was in Basel,

there were a group of people who pressured him to start a Bible study.

And he started a Bible study that became a church, and to this day, there is an evangelical church.

There in Basel, that great reformation city.

And there's a church there founded by Dr. Boyce. Well, he graduated from Basel in 1966. two years later in 1968 he was installed as the

minister of Philadelphia's 10th Presbyterian Church near Ritten House Square on Spruce Street in Philadelphia.

In historic church, its spire went way into the sky and its organ and its pipes could be heard throughout the city on a Sunday morning.

Well in the 1970s, in 1974 to be exact,

Boyce started the Philadelphia Conference on Reform Theology.

And in those early years, people would gather there in 10th Church to hear

John Gershner and a young R.C. Sproll and J.I. Packer and others, this constellation of

reformed theologians. In 1978, a number of them joined together and formed the International Council for Biblical Inerrancy.

A boy served as the chairman.

Dr. Sproll served as the president and the ICBI put out the Chicago statement on inerancy.

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