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Presuppositional Analysis: Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible
Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Mark L. Ward Jr.’s Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity,…
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The Apparatus Is Not an Eyewitness
A modern apparatus gives a necessary editorial summary, not a time machine. Alexandrinus must be judged through its material history, dated observers, transmissional possibilities, and ecclesiastical reception.
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Evidence Under Authority: A Confessional Use of Manuscripts
The alternative to extant-manuscript supremacy is not ignorance. It is a disciplined, ministerial use of historical evidence under the authority of the preserved text God has given His church.
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Presuppositional Analysis: Critical History of the Text of the New Testament
Critical History of the Text of the New Testament: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Richard Simon’s Critical History of the Text of the New Testament rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human…
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Lane Keister: Preservation Affirmed, but What Has Been Preserved?
Lane Keister explicitly affirms preservation, but the question is whether the doctrine he affirms is the same doctrine confessed in Westminster 1.8.
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Westminster's "Kept Pure in All Ages": Recovering the Assembly's Historical Claim
Westminster 1.8 confesses a providentially preserved, presently authentic Hebrew and Greek rule without identifying every witness or one flawless printing.
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Preservation as the Test Case
Biblical preservation concerns the words God gave and kept for the continuing faith and final appeal of the church. A surviving pool of evidence is not yet the confessional doctrine.
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Providence Smuggled into the Apparatus
God's universal providence governs the survival of every manuscript. It does not reveal that a particular manuscript was preserved to correct the church's Bible. Treating survival as such a revelation confuses providence with a hidden canon.
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Before Newton Called It a Corruption: Priscillian, Victor, Fulgentius, and the Long Latin Witness to 1 John 5:7
The long Latin history of 1 John 5:7 includes an unambiguous fourth-century citation, an African confession under Vandal persecution, and Fulgentius’s anti-Arian appeal. These witnesses do not make Latin equivalent to Greek or settle every textual question; they do make the slogan…
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Source and Claim Audit
Source and Claim Audit Controlling confessional claim The series uses the original wording and grammatical sequence of Westminster Confession of Faith 1.8: the Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament were immediately inspired;those Scriptures were kept pure in all ages by singular…
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Presuppositional Analysis: The Inspiration of Scripture
The Inspiration of Scripture: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Robert D. Preus’s The Inspiration of Scripture rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Preus investigates seventeenth-century Lutheran dogmaticians on Scripture, seeking…
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Book or Tree? Revelation 22:19 and the Myth of Doctrinal Neutrality
The last warning in Scripture is also the site of a textual dispute. The received text of Revelation 22:19 warns that if a man takes away from the words of the prophecy, God will take away his part “out of the book…
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