Providence Redefined: A Manuscript Treasury Is Not a Text
The preservation of manuscript evidence is a real providential good, but a treasury of divergent witnesses still requires an authorized rule to identify the church’s text.
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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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None Other God but One: The Unity of the Godhead
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.
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The Foundation Remains
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,…
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Of the Holy Scripture V: Chapter Conclusion—Can the Critical Greek and Hebrew Texts Sustain Westminster’s Doctrine of Scripture?
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…
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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…
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