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Internal Critique: Testing a System by Its Own First Principles
An internal critique does not dismiss a position from outside or attack its advocate. It states the system in its strongest form and asks whether its conclusions can live consistently with its own governing commitments.
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The Claims on Trial: What Wes Huff Says About the Biblical Text
I have watched Christians breathe easier when an apologist says that the Bible has not been lost. I understand the relief. The believer has heard the usual litany: thousands of manuscripts, hundreds of thousands of variants, no surviving autograph, and a succession…
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When the Canons Collide: The Question That Exposes the Method
What happens when the harder reading is also the longer reading? That plain collision opens the deeper question of who has authority to rank the canons and constitute the text of Scripture for the Church.
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Book Review: A Textual History of the King James Bible
A Textual History of the King James Bible Bibliographical Notice David Norton, A Textual History of the King James Bible (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005; copyright 2004). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict David Norton’s A Textual History of the King…
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Presuppositional Analysis: A Textual History of the King James Bible
A Textual History of the King James Bible: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question David Norton’s A Textual History of the King James Bible rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Norton…
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Building Another Foundation
Modern textual reconstruction does not merely collect old stones. It assembles a new judicial foundation: an editorial text whose identity rests upon fallible and revisable decisions, yet which is asked to bear the divine titles of the authentic Word.
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A Necessary Concession: Why Ruckmanism Is Not Confessional Bibliology
The Authorized Version was not inspired afresh and may not correct Hebrew or Greek. Granting White that point clears away Ruckmanism while leaving the confessional doctrine of original-language preservation untouched.
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"The Only Consistency Is the KJV": Steele’s Accusation Stated Fairly
Stephen Steele’s case against the Trinitarian Bible Society is more substantial than a single slogan. This opening article states his argument at its strongest, identifies what he has genuinely shown, and fixes the further proof required by his charge that the KJV—not…
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Not Every Historical Text Is the Same: Author, Confession, Church Act, Translation, and Public Standard
Historical meaning depends partly on document type: an individual treatise, adopted confession, church act, translation, and public standard do not speak in the same way.
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The Text We Have: What Confessional Bibliology Actually Affirms
Confessional Bibliology names an original-language standard and distinguishes it from the history of printed editions and from the Authorized Version as an English translation.
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Did the Westminster Divines Confess an Abstract or Accessible Text?
A text that exists only as unidentified readings scattered among witnesses cannot be translated or finally appealed to. WCF 1.8 speaks of an accessible Hebrew and Greek norm possessed by the church.
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Inconsistency: Testing the Canons Against Themselves
The canons of textual criticism often point in different directions. Bahnsen’s inconsistency test asks whether critics apply stable rules or change the weight of the rules as the preferred reading changes.
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