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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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Five Doctrinal-Effect Classes
D0 through D4 distinguish neutrality, lost testimony, accommodation, formal entailment, and orthodox counterevidence. The classes measure a reading’s demonstrated effect without turning a local finding into a corpus verdict.
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Canon Collision Casebook I: Mark 1:2 and Matthew 24:36
Mark 1:2 sets harder against shorter and broader reception; Matthew 24:36 sets difficulty against anti-harmonization. Neither variation unit is decided by one familiar maxim.
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What Presuppositionalism Does—and Does Not—Entail About the Text
Presuppositionalism rules out neutrality and an autonomous textual court, but it does not mechanically prove one printed edition or settle every variant without exegesis, confession, history, and evidence.
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How the Church Must Answer Heresy: Admonition, Judgment, Censure, and Restoration
The final article explains how false doctrine should be handled in the church: by admonition, lawful judgment, discipline, and, where God grants it, restoration.
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Does Modern Textual Criticism Stand in Confessional Continuity? A Controlled Comparison
A controlled comparison tests authority, textual object, preservation, authenticity, variants, conjecture, criticism, and church reception without collapsing history into judgment.
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When the Critical Text Moves Toward the Received Text
Many announced NA29 changes restore readings found in the Textus Receptus and Authorized Version. Those reversals do not grant the received text new authority; they expose the fallibility of the editions that first departed from it.
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The Martin Rule of Exact Doctrinal Entailment
A reading must be judged by what its words necessarily assert, what they remove, and what must be imported from elsewhere. The Martin Rule prevents both doctrinal minimization and exaggerated accusations of heresy.
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At Least Three Is Not Exactly Three: The Missing Premise in the Critical-Text Trinity
Suppose a witness tells a court that he saw Peter, James, and John enter a room. He has established the presence of three men. He has not established that only three men entered. Andrew may have followed beyond his line of sight.…
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