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The Inerrancy of the Autographa: What Bahnsen Rightly Affirmed
Before criticizing Bahnsen’s textual locus, a fair account must recognize his strong defense of divine authorship, verbal and plenary inspiration, complete truthfulness, and the real authority of faithful copies.
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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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Circularity, Ultimate Authority, and the Myth of Neutral Textual Criticism
James White calls Confessional Bibliology viciously circular. The proper answer distinguishes unavoidable ultimate-authority reasoning from arbitrary question-begging and restores evidence to its ministerial place.
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Book Review: The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations?
The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations? Bibliographical Notice James R. White, The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations? (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1995). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict James R. White’s The…
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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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The Question Beneath Every Appeal to Scripture
Every appeal to biblical authority assumes that the Church can identify the writings called Scripture. The doctrine of the canon asks which books are God’s Word and how they can be received with divine certainty.
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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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Book Review: The Received Text: A Field Guide
The Received Text: A Field Guide Bibliographical Notice Taylor DeSoto, The Received Text: A Field Guide (Kept Pure Press, 2024). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict Taylor DeSoto’s The Received Text: A Field Guide must be judged according to its actual…
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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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The Inspiration of Scripture
Robert D. Preus, The Inspiration of Scripture, 2nd ed. (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1957).
Preus investigates seventeenth-century Lutheran dogmaticians on inspiration, authority, and canon. The preface establishes a representative selection of orthodox Lutheran writers and identifies the book’s historical purpose: to correct later accounts that depict the period as merely sterile or mechanical. The study is…
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Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration
Louis Gaussen, Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration (Cincinnati: George S. Blanchard, 1859).
Gaussen defends verbal and plenary inspiration against thought-only accounts, then answers objections involving translations, the Septuagint, variants, historical narratives, and criticism. The final chapters are especially important: sacred criticism may inquire, record, and guard, but it may not sit in judgment over…
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