Edward F. Hills and the Logic of Faith
Edward F. Hills did something rare in twentieth-century textual criticism: he asked what the discipline must become when Christian faith is permitted to govern it from beginning to…
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Principles, methods, evidence, and criticism concerning the biblical text.
Local Reading and Complete Corpus
A local loss must not be concealed by the survival of doctrine elsewhere, but neither may one local loss be made to speak for an entire edition. The…
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The Method on Trial: Arbitrariness, Inconsistency, Consequences, and Preconditions
An apologetic may succeed against one opponent and fail as an account of its own authority. Wesley Huff can show a skeptic that the New Testament is vastly…
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Canon Collision Casebook II: Romans 5:1 and Acts 20:28
Romans 5:1 shows internal evidence overruling stronger witnesses, while Acts 20:28 shows that two rival readings may each be difficult in a different way.
Open record →Five Doctrinal-Effect Classes
D0 through D4 distinguish neutrality, lost testimony, accommodation, formal entailment, and orthodox counterevidence. The classes measure a reading’s demonstrated effect without turning a local finding into a corpus…
Open record →Canon Collision Casebook I: Mark 1:2 and Matthew 24:36
Mark 1:2 sets harder against shorter and broader reception; Matthew 24:36 sets difficulty against anti-harmonization. Neither variation unit is decided by one familiar maxim.
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