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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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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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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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Burden of Proof, Certainty Labels, and the Verdict Scale
Textual facts, historical inferences, translations, doctrinal consequences, and contradiction claims carry different burdens of proof. This article fixes the certainty labels and verdict rules that govern the reconstruction test.
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Can the Received Text and Critical Text Both Be “Pure”?
Translations can faithfully communicate Scripture, but contradictory Hebrew or Greek readings cannot both be the one authentic wording at the same place.
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The Reformed Orthodox on Present Textual Purity
Surveys Reformed orthodox teaching on the present authenticity and purity of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures while acknowledging ordinary transmissional variation.
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From Owen to Warfield: When Preservation Became Restoration
Traces the shift from John Owen’s doctrine of a presently possessed authentic text to B. B. Warfield’s account of autographic inerrancy and critical restoration.
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From “Erasmus’s Handful” to the Church’s Text: What the Small-Base Argument Leaves Out
Places Erasmus’s early printed editions within the broader manuscript, liturgical, editorial, and ecclesiastical inheritance behind the Received Text tradition.
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The Self-Attesting Word and the Impossibility of Neutrality: Why God’s Revelation Cannot Be Authenticated by a Higher Human Court
Scripture bears God’s own authority and cannot be authenticated by a higher neutral court; evidence and reason serve beneath its self-attesting testimony.
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The Confessional Text, the Authorized Version, and What We Do Not Mean by KJV-Onlyism: Original-Language Authority, Faithful Translation, and Necessary Distinctions
Distinguishes original-language authenticity from derivative translation authority and defines the publication’s position on the Authorized Version and KJV-onlyism.
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