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Presuppositional Analysis: Treatises Concerning the Scriptures
Treatises Concerning the Scriptures: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question John Owen’s Treatises Concerning the Scriptures rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. The relevant Goold-volume treatises are “Of the Divine Original…
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Repeat the Method, Lose the Text
If competent editors can repeat the accepted critical process and produce a different Greek text, the process has not uniquely identified the church's final standard. Its translations inherit the same defect.
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Providence Redefined: A Manuscript Treasury Is Not a Text
The preservation of manuscript evidence is a real providential good, but a treasury of divergent witnesses still requires an authorized rule to identify the church’s text.
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When an Error About Preservation Becomes Heresy
This article marks the threshold between a mistaken view of preservation and a doctrinal system that destroys the church’s possession of Scripture.
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The God Gregory of Nyssa Read: 1 Timothy 3:16 and the Greek Church Before the Critical Text
Gregory of Nyssa did not merely teach Christ’s deity in general terms. In his controversy with Eunomius, he introduced 1 Timothy 3:16 as Paul’s plain declaration that “God was manifest in the flesh.” His testimony does not eliminate every textual question, but…
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The Foundation Remains
The failure of reconstructive authority cannot destroy the authentic Word. Christ remains the chief cornerstone, the prophetic-apostolic foundation remains available, and the Church may build again through confession, reception, rigorous ministerial scholarship, and faithful translation.
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Presuppositional Analysis: A Disputation on Holy Scripture
A Disputation on Holy Scripture: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question William Whitaker’s A Disputation on Holy Scripture rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Whitaker’s Reformation polemic replies to Roman claims…
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Book Review: A Disputation on Holy Scripture
A Disputation on Holy Scripture Bibliographical Notice William Whitaker, A Disputation on Holy Scripture (trans. William Fitzgerald; Titus Books digital edition, 2013). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict William Whitaker’s A Disputation on Holy Scripture must be judged according to its…
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The Canons Have No Umpire: Dabney Vindicated and Refined
Dabney’s 1881 criticism of the Revised Version sharpens the ecclesial issue, but his case must be retained without treating him as infallible or freezing nineteenth-century evidence.
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Infallibility in Name, Autographic Inerrancy in Structure
Bahnsen used infallibility in its strongest sense, yet confined it formally to the autographic text. The decisive issue is not vocabulary but the present locus of final authority.
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The Preconditions of Textual Intelligibility
Textual criticism is possible only because reality is ordered, language is meaningful, testimony is knowable, truth is binding, and a determinate text exists. Those conditions require the Christian worldview the critical method brackets.
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The Autograph Nobody Has
The absence of the physical autographs does not prove that the church lacks the authentic text; it raises the question whether the final rule is an extant Word or a probability about a lost document.
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