Providence Redefined: A Manuscript Treasury Is Not a Text
The preservation of manuscript evidence is a real providential good, but a treasury of divergent witnesses still requires an authorized rule to identify the church’s text.
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Principles, methods, evidence, and criticism concerning the biblical text.
When an Error About Preservation Becomes Heresy
This article marks the threshold between a mistaken view of preservation and a doctrinal system that destroys the church’s possession of Scripture.
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What Textual Evidence Would Count as Arian?
A shorter or altered reading may weaken an anti-Arian proof without teaching Arianism. This article fixes the five doctrinal-effect classes and the proof required for a reading, an…
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Where Does Mark End? Mark 16:9–20 and the Price of an Abrupt Gospel
A reader reaches Mark 16:8 and finds the women fleeing the tomb. They tremble. They are amazed. They say nothing to anyone because they are afraid. Then, in…
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The Canons Have No Umpire: Dabney Vindicated and Refined
Dabney’s 1881 criticism of the Revised Version sharpens the ecclesial issue, but his case must be retained without treating him as infallible or freezing nineteenth-century evidence.
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Of the Holy Scripture V: Chapter Conclusion—Can the Critical Greek and Hebrew Texts Sustain Westminster’s Doctrine of Scripture?
The first chapter verdict is now due. The critical corpus retains much of Westminster's doctrine of Scripture, but the question is whether it independently supplies the confession's historical…
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