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Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration
Louis Gaussen, Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration (Cincinnati: George S. Blanchard, 1859).
Gaussen defends verbal and plenary inspiration against thought-only accounts, then answers objections involving translations, the Septuagint, variants, historical narratives, and criticism. The final chapters are especially important: sacred criticism may inquire, record, and guard, but it may not sit in judgment over…
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Treatises Concerning the Scriptures
Alternate title: Of the Divine Original of the Scriptures; Integrity and Purity of the Hebrew and Greek Text
John Owen, Treatises Concerning the Scriptures, in The Works of John Owen, vol. 16, ed. William H. Goold (Edinburgh: Johnstone and Hunter, 1853).
The relevant Owen treatises give a mature seventeenth-century Reformed account of Scripture’s divine original and of the integrity and purity of the Hebrew and Greek text. Owen distinguishes autographs, copies, variants, translations, and printed forms without allowing those distinctions to empty the…
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The Canon of the Holy Scriptures
Alternate title: From the Double Point of View of Science and of Faith
London: James Nisbet and Co., 1863.
Gaussen combines a historical case for the canon with a theological account of the believer’s certainty. He deliberately distinguishes evidence that may address the unbeliever from the divine ground of faith by which the church receives Scripture. The book mobilizes patristic testimony,…
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A Disputation on Holy Scripture
Alternate title: Against the Papists, Especially Bellarmine and Stapleton
William Whitaker, A Disputation on Holy Scripture, trans. William Fitzgerald; Titus Books digital edition, 2013.
Whitaker’s classic Reformation disputation answers Roman arguments on canon, authentic editions, authority, perspicuity, interpretation, and traditions. His central claims are that Scripture’s authority does not arise from the church, that Hebrew and Greek originals must not be confused with translations, and that…
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The Canon of the Holy Scriptures
Alternate title: From the Double Point of View of Science and of Faith
London: James Nisbet and Co., 21 Berners Street, 1863.
Gaussen argues for the canon of Scripture by combining historical evidence with what he calls the method of faith. Part One treats the New Testament canon through early catalogues, fathers, heretics, opponents, and the reception of disputed books. Part Two develops doctrinal…
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A Scholastical History of the Canon of the Holy Scripture
Alternate title: The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God John Cosin, Volume the Third
Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1849.
Cosin's learned historical defense of the canon received in the Church of England surveys patristic, conciliar, medieval, and later testimony concerning the canonical and apocryphal books. The 1849 editor verifies and expands Cosin's many source references and follows the 1657 first edition…
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