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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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The Word Given and the Word Kept: Inspiration, Canon, and Preservation as One Work of the Faithful God
Inspiration, canon, and preservation are distinguishable acts within one faithful divine work by which God gives and keeps his written Word for the church.
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“If God Wanted Certainty, He Would Have Preserved the Autographs”
Answers the counterfactual claim that textual certainty would have required God to preserve the physical autographs rather than their text in faithful apographs.
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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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No Doctrine Hangs on a Variant: The Retreat from Verbal Preservation to Doctrinal Survival
The survival of essential doctrine is a mercy, but it cannot identify the inspired wording of a disputed passage or replace verbal preservation.
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A History of the Debate over 1 John 5:7-8
Alternate title: A Tracing of the Longevity of the Comma Johanneum, with Evaluations of Arguments Against Its Authenticity
Tempe, Arizona: Comma Publications, 1995.
Maynard assembles a chronological and bibliographical history of the Comma Johanneum from early patristic and versional evidence through the medieval Latin tradition, Erasmus and the printed Greek text, Reformation controversy, and modern criticism. He defends the authenticity of the traditional wording of…
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Lane Keister, Matthew 5:18, and Exact Confessional Entailment
Lane Keister expressly affirms providential preservation and denies that Matthew 5:18 teaches it. Exact doctrinal judgment requires us to distinguish his profession, his exegesis, and the adequacy of his preservation model.
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Objections to Confessional Bibliology - 6
Archetype vs. Providential Preservation: Does Older Evidence Undermine a Single Confessional Textual Line? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Introduction A central tenet of confessional bibliology is the belief that God has providentially…
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Has the Bible Been Kept Pure - Review
1. Bibliographic Information Title: Has the Bible been kept pure? The Westminster Confession of Faith and the providential preservation of Scripture Author: T. Garnet Howard Milne Publisher Year : Copyright © Garnet Howard Milne 2017 self-published or independently published; no…
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