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Matthew 5:18 and the Written Form of Scripture
Matthew 5:18 principally declares the law’s abiding authority and fulfillment, but Christ makes that declaration through the smallest written features. Doctrine and written form must be held together.
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The Historical-Meaning Rule: Past Writers Must Be Allowed to Speak
Past writers must be interpreted in the sense their words bore in their own time before continuity, development, correction, or contradiction is claimed.
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The Experiment: Can Reformed Theology Be Rebuilt from Modern Critical Editions?
A controlled experiment will test whether modern critical editions can derive, preserve, and sustain the exact propositions and coherence of Reformed theology.
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Why the Westminster Standards Are the Doctrinal Target
The Westminster Standards supply a public, historically fixed, scripturally argued, and sufficiently comprehensive doctrinal target for the reconstruction test.
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What It Means to ‘Build’ a Theology from a Text
To build theology from a text is to derive exact confessional propositions through express statements and genuinely good and necessary consequences.
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Doctrinal Survival Is Not Doctrinal Derivation
A doctrine’s survival somewhere in Scripture is not the same question as whether a specific confessional proposition can still be derived from its historical proof structure.
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The Strongest Critical-Text Case: Rules against Straw Men
A critique is only as strong as the case it survives. This article states the strongest responsible critical-text position, distinguishes steelmanning from neutrality or concession, and fixes the rules every later reconstruction dossier must follow.
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Contradiction, Tension, Ambiguity, and Proof-Text Loss
Contradiction, tension, ambiguity, and proof-text loss are not interchangeable accusations. This article defines each category, fixes the threshold for a strict contradiction, and shows how logical coherence and confessional derivation must be judged on separate axes.
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Scripture Interprets Scripture: The Canonical-Coherence Test
Scripture is its own infallible interpreter, but canonical synthesis cannot be used to silence local wording or conceal textual instability. This article establishes the test that distinguishes legitimate clarification, completion, qualification, and harmonization from theological repair.
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Textual Reading, Translation, and Interpretation: Three Different Questions
A Greek or Hebrew reading, an English translation, and an interpretation of that wording are related but distinct objects. This article establishes the controls needed to determine whether a doctrine belongs to a critical edition, to a translator’s repair, or to a…
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Inherited Theology and the Problem of Hidden Borrowing
No interpreter approaches Scripture without prior theology, but a reconstruction succeeds only when its material premises can be traced to the corpus under examination. This article distinguishes legitimate theological inheritance from hidden textual, translational, interpretive, and doctrinal borrowing.
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Negative Controls: Difficulties Shared by Received and Critical Texts
A fair reconstruction test must distinguish problems produced by a critical reading from difficulties already present in both the critical and received texts. Negative controls prevent false attribution, special pleading, and inflated verdicts.
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