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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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Palaeography: A Real Tool with Real Limits
Handwriting comparison can place an undated manuscript within a useful historical range. It cannot make every letter form a clock or turn stylistic resemblance into a dated colophon.
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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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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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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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Book Review: Why I Preach from the Received Text
Why I Preach from the Received Text Bibliographical Notice Jeffrey T. Riddle and Christian M. McShaffrey, eds., Why I Preach from the Received Text: An Anthology of Essays by Reformed Ministers (Winter Springs, FL: The Greater Heritage, 2022). The Book’s Task and…
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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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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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Speaking the Truth in Love: Calamy’s Trinitarian Conclusion
Calamy concludes that doctrinal truth and Christian love must be maintained jointly: charity cannot erase the Trinity, and zeal cannot excuse pride, suspicion, or cruelty.
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‘No Doctrine Is Affected’ Is Not an Answer
A doctrine may survive elsewhere while a changed reading removes, weakens, or redirects what one passage says. The proper question is not whether Christianity survives, but what exact scriptural proposition has changed.
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Secret Knowledge, Spiritual Castes, and Hostility to Creation
Several ancient systems replaced the public apostolic gospel with elite knowledge, divided humanity into fixed spiritual kinds, and treated marriage or food as stains from an inferior creation.
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