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Debate Over the Preservation and Authority of Scripture. Part 4
6. Brash’s Reinterpretation in Light of Enlightenment Assumptions In his work, Richard Fraser Brash attempts to reframe John Owen’s views on Scriptural preservation within the broader context of Enlightenment-era developments in textual criticism. Brash argues that Owen’s…
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Debate Over the Preservation and Authority of Scripture. Part 5
8. Conclusion: Reaffirming Owen’s Legacy and the Doctrine of Preservation John Owen’s writings on the authority, inspiration, and preservation of Scripture provide a robust theological framework that stands in sharp contrast to Enlightenment-influenced approaches to textual…
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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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“Through the Manuscripts”: Does an Aggregate of Competing Readings Constitute a Preserved Text?
An aggregate of mutually exclusive readings is evidence about a text, not itself the preserved and authentic text confessed by the church.
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The Supreme Judge of All Religious Controversies: Why Scripture Judges Councils, Confessions, Scholars, Churches, and Private Spirits
Scripture is the supreme court of religious controversy; councils, confessions, scholars, churches, and private judgments possess only subordinate authority.
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Evidence as Servant, Not Sovereign: The Proper Work of Textual Inquiry
Defines the ministerial use of manuscripts, versions, linguistic study, and historical evidence beneath the doctrine and authority of Scripture.
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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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