Who Is the Court? Ministerial and Magisterial Textual Criticism
The real divide is not between people who compare manuscripts and people who refuse to do so. It is between textual work that serves Scripture and textual work…
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Principles, methods, evidence, and criticism concerning the biblical text.
Of the Holy Scripture II: Necessity, Canon, and Authority
Westminster Confession 1.1–1.4 says more than that God once inspired writings. It confesses the necessity of written revelation, a defined canon, the exclusion of the Apocrypha, and an…
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Two Strokes Between “God” and “Who”
In an uncial manuscript, θεός and ὅς can differ by a transverse line and a sacred overbar. The tiny material difference explains both the controversy and the danger…
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The Text We Have: What Confessional Bibliology Actually Affirms
Confessional Bibliology names an original-language standard and distinguishes it from the history of printed editions and from the Authorized Version as an English translation.
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What Scripture Calls Heresy
This article distinguishes the biblical passages on sects, heresies, admonition, and damnable heresies so the church does not confuse them.
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Building Another Foundation
Modern textual reconstruction does not merely collect old stones. It assembles a new judicial foundation: an editorial text whose identity rests upon fallible and revisable decisions, yet which…
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