“Through the Manuscripts”: Does an Aggregate of Competing Readings Constitute a Preserved Text?
An aggregate of mutually exclusive readings is evidence about a text, not itself the preserved and authentic text confessed by the church.
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The Word’s Testimony Concerning Itself
Scripture’s divine authority, self-attestation, and promise of preservation must govern the evidence rather than await permission from a neutral tribunal.
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How to Recognize Magisterial and Ministerial Textual Criticism in Practice
Ten diagnostic questions reveal whether textual criticism recognizes a preserved text as a servant or reconstructs an absent text as a judge.
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God Alone Is Lord of the Conscience
God alone owns the conscience; human authority binds only within its divine commission and never by implicit faith or blind obedience.
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The Private Greek New Testament, 1853–1870
Westcott and Hort did not enter the Revision Company as neutral observers waiting for its evidence to form their views. They brought a Greek New Testament already seventeen…
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