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The Proportionality Safeguard: Match the Answer to the Error
The force, publicity, duration, and repetition of criticism should correspond to the seriousness, reach, persistence, and danger of the error.
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Preservation with a Preserved Text: The Confessional Verdict
States the series’ confessional verdict that preservation must terminate in an identifiable, publicly possessed Hebrew and Greek text prior to the critic’s judgment.
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Why “No Doctrine Is Affected” Is Not Enough
Few reassurances appear more frequently in discussions of textual criticism than the claim that no Christian doctrine is affected by textual variants. The statement is meant to calm believers who have just learned that manuscripts differ, that familiar passages are bracketed or…
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No Neutral Ground Beneath the Apparatus: Faith, Science, and the Final Court
Manuscripts supply readings, not their own rank or theological meaning. Gaussen’s distinction between faith and historical science shows why evidence must serve Scripture’s doctrine rather than constitute the Church’s Bible.
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The Authentic Old Testament Is Preserved in the Hebrew Masoretic Textual Tradition
A doctrine of preservation that cannot identify the preserved text remains incomplete.
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The Fifth-Commandment Safeguard: Honor Office Without Granting Immunity
Ecclesiastical office must receive proper honor, yet no office makes public doctrine immune from biblical examination and correction.
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Magisterial and Ministerial Textual Criticism
The deepest question in textual criticism is not how many manuscripts a scholar has collated, how early a codex is dated, or how sophisticated his account of scribal habits may be. It is not even which reading he selects at a particular…
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The ECM, the CBGM, and the Reconstruction of an Initial Text
The ECM supplies the evidence and editorial decisions behind the newest hand editions, while the CBGM analyzes coherence within a contaminated tradition. Neither should be caricatured as an automatic computer-generated Bible.
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The Authentic New Testament Is Preserved in the Greek Received Text Tradition
The doctrine of preservation must eventually identify a text.
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How Can Ye Believe? Academic Honor and the Fear of Man
Peer correction can strengthen Christian scholarship, but craving the academic guild’s recognition can become a rival loyalty that controls which biblical conclusions a scholar is willing to confess.
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The Ninth-Commandment Safeguard: Truth Forbids Selective Evidence
Christian polemics must reject selective quotation, exaggeration, guilt by association, suppressed contrary evidence, and unproved claims about motive.
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How Particular Readings May Be Tested
If textual criticism must be ministerial rather than magisterial, how should a particular reading actually be tested?
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