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‘Kept Pure in All Ages’: The Confessional Control
Westminster 1.8 joins immediate inspiration, singular providence, continuing purity, present authenticity, and final appeal. Its original wording does not describe merely sufficient or recoverable Scripture.
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Presuppositional Analysis: A Plea for the Received Greek Text
A Plea for the Received Greek Text: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question S. C. Malan’s A Plea for the Received Greek Text rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Malan replies…
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Local Reading and Complete Corpus
A local loss must not be concealed by the survival of doctrine elsewhere, but neither may one local loss be made to speak for an entire edition. The corpus test preserves both the verse and the whole counsel of Scripture.
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The Method on Trial: Arbitrariness, Inconsistency, Consequences, and Preconditions
An apologetic may succeed against one opponent and fail as an account of its own authority. Wesley Huff can show a skeptic that the New Testament is vastly better attested than many ancient works. He can expose false claims about manuscripts, explain…
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Which Bible Is Self-Attesting?
Scripture’s self-attestation cannot remain an abstract property of inaccessible originals. The church hears God in extant words, so a complete apologetic must identify the preserved textual object that attests itself.
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Presuppositional Analysis: Symposium on the Biblical Text and Literature
Symposium on the Biblical Text and Literature: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Journal of Christian Reconstruction’s Symposium on the Biblical Text and Literature rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. This…
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Profession Is Not Derivation: What an Orthodox Confession Cannot Prove About a Method
A man signs a confession stating that God exists in three persons. He preaches the deity of Christ, recommends serious books on the Trinity, and defends Christianity in public. Another man analyzes the textual premises used in his apologetic and concludes that…
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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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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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Presuppositional Analysis: Why I Preach from the Received Text
Why I Preach from the Received Text: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Jeffrey T. Riddle and Christian M. McShaffrey, eds.’s Why I Preach from the Received Text rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence,…
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A Certain Faith Built on a Provisional Text
Bahnsen rejected apologetic foundations that leave Christianity merely probable. Yet a reconstructionist textual model makes the church’s operative wording revisable in principle at every disputed place.
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Infallibility and Inerrancy: When Shared Words Conceal a Doctrinal Shift
Warfield did not invent biblical truthfulness, but his autographic formulation reconfigured the locus of perfection and the role of textual criticism.
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