John Owen’s “Divine Original”: Authority Joined to Integrity and Purity
Owen's paired 1659 treatises join Scripture's divine authority to the integrity and purity of the extant Hebrew and Greek text without making copyists inspired.
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9 published records in this controlled archive.
Historical Report Is Not Biblical Judgment: Identity, Development, Revision, and Rejection
Historical findings and theological verdicts answer different questions; controlled relationship labels keep them ordered and explicit.
Open record →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.
Open record →The Whole Argument and the Question Being Answered
A quotation must be read within the author's purpose, opponent, alternatives, qualifications, and wider argument.
Open record →When Words Change Their Meaning: Semantic Shift and False Continuity
Shared vocabulary can hide changed concepts; historical term ledgers expose semantic shift before continuity is claimed.
Open record →The Order of Historical Evidence: Text, Whole Work, Usage, Controversy, and Reception
A disciplined hierarchy keeps primary text, whole-work context, period usage, controversy, and reception from being reversed or selectively used.
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