How to Recognize Magisterial and Ministerial Textual Criticism in Practice
Ten diagnostic questions reveal whether textual criticism recognizes a preserved text as a servant or reconstructs an absent text as a judge.
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When Criticism Serves the Word: What Is Ministerial Textual Criticism?
Ministerial textual criticism uses manuscripts, versions, history, grammar, and reason as servants of the original-language Scriptures God has already given and preserved.
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When the Critic Becomes the Judge: What Is Magisterial Textual Criticism?
Magisterial textual criticism is defined not by the tools it uses but by the judicial office assigned to critical reconstruction over the church's text.
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