Evidence as Servant, Not Sovereign: The Proper Work of Textual Inquiry
Defines the ministerial use of manuscripts, versions, linguistic study, and historical evidence beneath the doctrine and authority of Scripture.
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Principles, methods, evidence, and criticism concerning the biblical text.
Doctrinal Survival Is Not Doctrinal Derivation
A doctrine’s survival somewhere in Scripture is not the same question as whether a specific confessional proposition can still be derived from its historical proof structure.
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The Text the Church Possesses: Preservation, Recognition, and the Confessional Text
The church publicly possesses the preserved Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Received textual traditions while judging particular witnesses ministerially and honestly.
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Why the Westminster Standards Are the Doctrinal Target
The Westminster Standards supply a public, historically fixed, scripturally argued, and sufficiently comprehensive doctrinal target for the reconstruction test.
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What It Means to ‘Build’ a Theology from a Text
To build theology from a text is to derive exact confessional propositions through express statements and genuinely good and necessary consequences.
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The Experiment: Can Reformed Theology Be Rebuilt from Modern Critical Editions?
A controlled experiment will test whether modern critical editions can derive, preserve, and sustain the exact propositions and coherence of Reformed theology.
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