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Text, Witness, Edition, and Translation
The argument over TBS repeatedly collapses four different things: the inspired text, manuscript witnesses, printed editions, and translations. Keeping them distinct exposes why manuscript counting, historical collation, and textual authority cannot be treated as interchangeable.
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One Bible, Many Reconstructions: Where Does the Text Exist?
There is a sentence in Wesley Huff’s account of the New Testament that invites confidence and postpones definition. The original writings, he says, have been lost; nevertheless, the Bible itself was not lost. New discoveries have instead broadened our knowledge and allowed…
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Presuppositional Analysis: The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations?
The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations?: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question James R. White’s The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations? rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual…
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Hoisting the Church
The critical text can replace the received text only if the Church transfers to a reconstructed product the old foundation’s titles: inspired, preserved, authentic, self-attesting, and final. That transfer requires a warrant the reconstructive method cannot supply.
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“Undue Silence in a Just Cause”: When “Intramural” Becomes an Excuse
Calling the textual controversy intramural does not make it nonfoundational, and church polity does not excuse elders from publicly answering public error about the identity and preservation of Scripture.
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Presuppositional Analysis: The Received Text: A Field Guide
The Received Text: A Field Guide: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Taylor DeSoto’s The Received Text: A Field Guide rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. DeSoto supplies a short Protestant…
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Has the Bible Been Kept Pure?
Alternate title: The Westminster Confession of Faith and the Providential Preservation of Scripture
Independently published, 2017.
Milne argues from primary Reformation and post-Reformation sources that Westminster Confession 1.8 teaches providential preservation of the complete wording of Scripture in accessible Hebrew and Greek copies, not merely preservation of doctrine or a recoverable text hidden across the manuscript tradition. Extended…
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Providential Preservation Series: An Introduction
The doctrine of providential preservation is one of the cornerstone beliefs in Reformed theology regarding the nature and authority of Scripture. While the concept of inspiration emphasizes that the Bible is divinely “breathed out” by God, preservation addresses the equally vital…
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Objections to Confessional Bibliology - 5
Confessional Authority vs. Scriptural Authority: Are We Elevating Tradition over Revelation? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Introduction Throughout church history, Christians have wrestled with the question of how human…
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The Church as Witness and Keeper, Not Creator or Master: How Christ’s Church Receives, Recognizes, Preserves, and Proclaims His Word
Christ’s church receives, recognizes, preserves, and proclaims the Word as its appointed witness and keeper, never as the source or master of Scripture’s authority.
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Why I Preach from the Received Text - Review
1. Bibliographic Information Title: Why I Preach from the Received Text: An Anthology of Essays by Reformed Ministers Editors: Jeffrey T. Riddle & Christian M. McShaffrey Publisher Year : The Greater Heritage 2022 Length: Twenty-five essays plus editorial introduction and…
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Probability All the Way Down: When the Critic’s Judgment Becomes the Final Court
Examines how a chain of revisable probabilities can make the critic’s judgment function as the final court at every disputed textual locus.
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