Constructive doctrinal treatments of Holy Scripture.
Which books are Scripture, what words constitute those books, and how the church recognizes both are related but distinct questions. God creates the canon and text; the church…
Open record →The truthfulness and unity of Scripture are not an excuse to deny variant copies; they are a theological constraint on how the church identifies the canonical text.
Open record →A doctrine may deny the God of Scripture in its necessary consequence while its advocate sincerely professes Christian faith. The contradiction must be described without concealment or slander.
Open record →The familiar story that Erasmus made a wager about the Comma Johanneum is commonly repeated as settled history. The actual question is narrower: what did Erasmus say, what…
Open record →Copyists are not inspired, but it does not follow that the inspired words cease to be Scripture when faithfully copied. Historic Reformed theology distinguishes act, agent, product, artifact,…
Open record →Inspiration produced the God-breathed Scriptures; preservation conserves that inspired text through history. The acts differ in mode and instruments while serving one divine purpose: an abiding written rule…
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