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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Matthew 3:7 — “His Baptism”: Does the Pronoun Belong in John’s Rebuke?
The difference is a pronoun. The Textus Receptus calls the rite his baptism—John’s.
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The Supreme Judge of All Religious Controversies: Why Scripture Judges Councils, Confessions, Scholars, Churches, and Private Spirits
Scripture is the supreme court of religious controversy; councils, confessions, scholars, churches, and private judgments possess only subordinate authority.
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