Category: Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses
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The Church Must Receive, Confess, and Use the Text God Has Preserved
The doctrine of Scripture cannot end in a library.
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Difficult Variants Must Be Resolved Within the Received Text
The previous thesis argued that the traditional text must be evaluated as a providential whole. That conclusion immediately raises a practical question.
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The Traditional Text Must Be Evaluated as a Providential Whole
Modern textual criticism habitually presents each textual variant as an independent contest.
Open record →When Textual Criticism Becomes Magisterial
Textual criticism becomes magisterial when an indefinitely continuing scholarly reconstruction is made the court that gives Scripture its identity.
Open record →Textual Criticism Is Legitimate Only as a Ministerial Discipline
Textual criticism is legitimate when it serves the preserved text under Scripture’s authority; it becomes illegitimate when scholarship is made the court that gives the text its identity.
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