Probability All the Way Down: When the Critic’s Judgment Becomes the Final Court
Examines how a chain of revisable probabilities can make the critic’s judgment function as the final court at every disputed textual locus.
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John Owen and the Learned Surrender He Refused
There is such a thing as learned error. A scholar may possess formidable languages, read rare manuscripts, command a vast bibliography, and still draw a mistaken conclusion. That…
Open record →Inherited Theology and the Problem of Hidden Borrowing
No interpreter approaches Scripture without prior theology, but a reconstruction succeeds only when its material premises can be traced to the corpus under examination. This article distinguishes legitimate…
Open record →Christian Publication and Ecclesiastical Judgment
A definition of what a lay theological publication may and may not do, distinguishing criticism from censure, argument from adjudication, and publication from ordination.
Open record →The Authority Safeguard: Scripture Is the Final Court
Doctrinal judgment begins and ends beneath Holy Scripture; confessions and scholarship serve as real but subordinate witnesses.
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