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The Holy Ghost, the Church, and Recognition of the Text
God gives his Word; the Holy Ghost bears witness to that Word; and the church receives it. That order is neither accidental nor reversible.
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The Bible Is Not Like Any Other Ancient Book
One sentence governs much of modern textual criticism: For the purposes of critical study, the Bible must be treated like any other ancient book.
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John Owen and the Learned Surrender He Refused
There is such a thing as learned error. A scholar may possess formidable languages, read rare manuscripts, command a vast bibliography, and still draw a mistaken conclusion. That possibility is generally admitted. Scholarship is a human activity, and human judgments are fallible.
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Richard Simon and the Roman Strategy of Textual Uncertainty
The preceding article examined John Owen’s refusal to let the learned apparatus become a court over Scripture. Nineteen years after Owen published that warning, Richard Simon supplied a remarkable demonstration of why it was necessary.
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From Enlightenment Criticism to Westcott and Hort
Richard Simon had converted textual uncertainty into an argument for Roman tradition. If the extant copies could not identify and interpret the Word of God with sufficient certainty, the church must provide the certainty the text lacked. The preceding article examined that…
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B. B. Warfield and the Evangelical Adoption of the Academy Game
Westcott and Hort did not invent restorationist textual criticism, but their 1881 edition gave it a commanding historical theory and an imposing scholarly form. The question confronting conservative Protestants was therefore no longer whether the new criticism existed. It was whether its…
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From Extant Infallibility to Lost-Autograph Inerrancy
Part Sixteen considered B. B. Warfield’s historical role in bringing restorationist textual criticism into conservative American theology. The present article turns from that history to the doctrinal change itself. What happens when the perfection of Scripture is located exclusively in the first…
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Preservation in Name Only
Theological revolutions do not always begin by rejecting familiar words. Often the older vocabulary is retained while its doctrinal content is quietly altered. Inspiration may be affirmed while reduced to religious insight. Resurrection may be affirmed while redefined as the disciples’ continuing…
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The Self-Attesting Word and the Impossibility of a Higher Court
An ultimate authority cannot be certified by a more ultimate tribunal. The doctrine of Scripture must therefore explain how the self-attesting Word is recognized in extant words without making critical reconstruction its higher court.
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Historical Resources on Textual Criticism, Bible Versions, etc.
The information in this post comes from the following Facebook note of Sean McDonald. They will be added to The Library over the next 2 weeks along with many other books. May 27, 2013 at 8:10am The following online resources tend toward…
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The Preservation of Scripture
One of the benefits that God gave Israel as his covenanted people was committing to them the oracles of God. What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were…
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Making Mountains Out of Molehills - Part 2
Making Mountains Out of Molehills Part 2 \ Part 1\ \ Part 3\ \ Part 4\ This is the 2nd part in the series covering Mr. White's Apologia episode. 31:00 People are afraid, they just want black and white 31:20 Dr. Dan…
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