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The Provenance Safeguard: Name the Source Actually Consulted
Research must identify the source actually consulted and disclose whether access was direct, derivative, incomplete, uncertain, or dependent on another report.
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The Text-Stewardship Safeguard: A Scan Is Not a Verified Text
Facsimile, OCR, diplomatic transcription, corrected transcription, modern-reader edition, translation, excerpt, and quotation must remain visibly distinct.
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The Archival-Continuity Safeguard: Preserve the Record of Change
Material revisions, corrections, and retractions must preserve a dated record of what changed, why it changed, and which version is current.
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The Martin Rule: No More Than the Text Proves
A doctrinal reconstruction may conclude no more than its declared textual corpus explicitly states or necessarily entails.
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The Nineteen Governing Safeguards of Confessional Bibliology
The permanent public standard governing authority, evidence, context, categories, jurisdiction, correction, source stewardship, exact entailment, and historical meaning.
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Past Writers Must Be Allowed to Speak: Historical Meaning in Doctrinal Debate
The Safeguard 19 method-and-case series for establishing what older writers and confessions meant before comparing, developing, or judging their claims.
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How Can Ye Believe? Academic Honor and the Fear of Man
Peer correction can strengthen Christian scholarship, but craving the academic guild’s recognition can become a rival loyalty that controls which biblical conclusions a scholar is willing to confess.
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An Apologetic with a Borrowed Standard: How Guild Dependence Weakens the Defense of the Faith
A Christian cannot consistently challenge autonomous reason after granting it final jurisdiction over the identity of Scripture. The defense of the faith must begin under Christ’s Lordship, including its textual foundation.
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Scholarship Under the Word: The Ministerial Alternative
The alternative to academic captivity is exacting historical, linguistic, and textual scholarship ordered beneath Scripture’s authority and practiced for Christ’s Church.
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Why “No Doctrine Is Affected” Is Not Enough
Few reassurances appear more frequently in discussions of textual criticism than the claim that no Christian doctrine is affected by textual variants. The statement is meant to calm believers who have just learned that manuscripts differ, that familiar passages are bracketed or…
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Magisterial and Ministerial Textual Criticism
The deepest question in textual criticism is not how many manuscripts a scholar has collated, how early a codex is dated, or how sophisticated his account of scribal habits may be. It is not even which reading he selects at a particular…
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How Particular Readings May Be Tested
If textual criticism must be ministerial rather than magisterial, how should a particular reading actually be tested?
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