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Which Textus Receptus? A Response to Mark Ward's Critique of Confessional Bibliology
Introduction The debate over the authenticity and authority of the Textus Receptus TR is not new, yet it remains a focal point of discussion within textual criticism and evangelical circles. Mark Ward’s Which Textus Receptus? A Critique of Confessional Bibliology , published…
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The Foundations of Reformed Textual Criticism
Introduction: The Essential Question of God’s Word and Its Preservation Few questions are as critical to the Christian faith as this: “What is the Word of God, and how has it been preserved for His church?” For those in the Reformed tradition,…
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The Practical Relevance of Reformed Textual Criticism Today
Introduction: From Theory to Practice Textual criticism is often regarded as an academic discipline, confined to seminaries, libraries, or scholarly journals. Yet, for the Reformed Christian, textual criticism is not an abstract exercise. It is a profoundly practical discipline…
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A Revision Becomes a Reconstruction
The 1881 Revisers were commissioned to revise the Authorized Version, yet their own rules and preface show that they also judged and altered its underlying Greek text. That second operation changed the work’s object—and moved the practical court of appeal from a…
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When the Critic Becomes the Judge: What Is Magisterial Textual Criticism?
Magisterial textual criticism is defined not by the tools it uses but by the judicial office assigned to critical reconstruction over the church's text.
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When Criticism Serves the Word: What Is Ministerial Textual Criticism?
Ministerial textual criticism uses manuscripts, versions, history, grammar, and reason as servants of the original-language Scriptures God has already given and preserved.
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How to Recognize Magisterial and Ministerial Textual Criticism in Practice
Ten diagnostic questions reveal whether textual criticism recognizes a preserved text as a servant or reconstructs an absent text as a judge.
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Preserved Purity: An Introduction
In Garnet H. Milne's book Has the Bible Been Kept Pure?, he quotes extensively from the writings of the Reformers. However, if you're like me, you want to read the entire passage or even work that he mentions for one's own personal…
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The Word Given and the Word Kept: Inspiration, Canon, and Preservation as One Work of the Faithful God
Inspiration, canon, and preservation are distinguishable acts within one faithful divine work by which God gives and keeps his written Word for the church.
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“If God Wanted Certainty, He Would Have Preserved the Autographs”
Answers the counterfactual claim that textual certainty would have required God to preserve the physical autographs rather than their text in faithful apographs.
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Four Different Doctrines Hiding Under One Word: Survival, Recoverability, Identifiability, and Public Possession
Material survival, critical recoverability, textual identifiability, and public possession are four different claims; only careful distinction reveals what a doctrine of preservation actually supplies.
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A Necessary Clarification: Lane Keister Affirms Preservation—but What Does He Mean?
Lane Keister affirms preservation; the remaining question is whether that affirmation gives the church an identifiable and publicly possessed text.
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