Friends, Foes, and First Readers: Contemporary Reception as Historical Evidence
Contemporary reception can clarify how a work was heard, but praise, opposition, silence, and later summaries must be weighed rather than counted.
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Contemporary reception can clarify how a work was heard, but praise, opposition, silence, and later summaries must be weighed rather than counted.
Open record →Having demonstrated the deity of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Calamy defends the indivisible unity of God and rejects every hierarchy of supreme and subordinate deities.
Open record →The failure of reconstructive authority cannot destroy the authentic Word. Christ remains the chief cornerstone, the prophetic-apostolic foundation remains available, and the Church may build again through confession,…
Open record →The first chapter verdict is now due. The critical corpus retains much of Westminster's doctrine of Scripture, but the question is whether it independently supplies the confession's historical…
Open record →The absence of the physical autographs does not prove that the church lacks the authentic text; it raises the question whether the final rule is an extant Word…
Open record →A quotation must be read within the author's purpose, opponent, alternatives, qualifications, and wider argument.
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