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Textual Criticism Is Legitimate Only as a Ministerial Discipline
Textual criticism is legitimate when it serves the preserved text under Scripture’s authority; it becomes illegitimate when scholarship is made the court that gives the text its identity.
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Textual Criticism != Providential Preservation
Textual Criticism does not equal Providential Preservation. In his latest Dividing Line, Mr. White calls the non-CT views among other things "dangerous, counter-productive, non-confessional , ahistorical and indefensible." Now Mr. White holds to the mid-20th century view of…
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The Text of the New Testament
Alternate title: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989; translated from the German second edition.
Kurt and Barbara Aland provide a comprehensive manual to critical editions, Greek manuscript classification, papyri, uncials, minuscules, lectionaries, ancient versions, patristic citation, and the practical evaluation of variants. The book combines reference tables and manuscript profiles with a concise statement of editorial…
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An Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament
Alternate title: An introduction to the textual criticism of the New Testament
New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1889
Garnet Howard Milne cites this book / treatise in the secondary material of Has the Bible Been Kept Pure? The record preserves Milne's exact citation and source-page evidence. Current access research is labeled: Free item or scan. Its textual methodology has not…
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The Manuscript That Survived: Why Extant-Witness Supremacy Is a Non Sequitur
A surviving manuscript can be evidence of a reading. Its survival cannot, by itself, prove that the reading is superior to the Received Text. The missing premise is exactly what the argument needs to establish.
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The God Gregory of Nyssa Read: 1 Timothy 3:16 and the Greek Church Before the Critical Text
Gregory of Nyssa did not merely teach Christ’s deity in general terms. In his controversy with Eunomius, he introduced 1 Timothy 3:16 as Paul’s plain declaration that “God was manifest in the flesh.” His testimony does not eliminate every textual question, but…
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The Foundation Remains
The failure of reconstructive authority cannot destroy the authentic Word. Christ remains the chief cornerstone, the prophetic-apostolic foundation remains available, and the Church may build again through confession, reception, rigorous ministerial scholarship, and faithful translation.
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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 edition, or a corpus-level indictment.
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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 many modern Bibles, a rule, bracket, or note interrupts the page. The next twelve…
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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 3: Probability Cannot Speak with Divine Authority
Historical investigation may serve the church, but it cannot become the court that decides what God has said. A probable reading cannot bear the same authority as a known word of God.
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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 claim that the original Hebrew and Greek texts were kept pure, are authentical, and…
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