This is a collection of essays written by Theodore Letis, the Director of the Institute of Renaissance and Reformation Studies, over a period between 1987-1997 and published in journals both popular and academic, while he was a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh. Some are popular, most are rather technical studies treating translation philosophy, text criticism, the Protestant orthodox dogmatic traditions of the seventeenth-century. It also contains four important book reviews and two appendices.In these essays, Letis presents a rigorous defense of the use of the Textus Receptus, or the Ecclesiastical Text, over the various critical texts which have been heavily used since the time of B.B. Warfield. Letis challenges the prevailing notion that Biblical authority is to be found in the original autographs of Scripture by demonstrating a theological shift in the later nineteenth into early twentieth centuries, and consequently arguing that authority is to be found in the apographa, or the text preserved in the church.

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This is a collection of essays written by the Director of the Institute over a period between 1987-1997 and published in journals both popular and academic, while he was a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh. Some are popular, most are rather technical studies treating translation philosophy, text criticism, the Protestant orthodox dogmatic traditions of the seventeenth-century. It also contains four important books reviews and two appendices. Some of these essays first appeared in the early series of the Bulletin.

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Table of Contents
Essays
I.    B.B. Warfield, Common-Sense Philosophy and Biblical Criticism.
II.    The Protestant Dogmaticians and the Late Princeton School on the Status of the Sacred Apographa.
III.    The Language of Biblical Authority: From Protestant Orthodoxy to Evangelical Equivocation.
IV.    Brevard Childs and the Protestant Dogmaticians: A Window to a New Paradigm.
V.    John 1:18 and the Egyptian Manuscripts: A Case Study in the Canonical Approach.
VI.    The Protestant Reformation and the Philosophy of Bible Translations.
VII.    The Ecclesiastical Text Redivivus?
VIII.    The Revival of the Ecclesiastical Text and the Claims of the Anabaptists.
Book Reviews
(four)
Appendices
(two)

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