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Office, Authority, and the Duty of Every Christian to Confess the Truth: Why Christ’s Appointment of Shepherds Does Not Silence the Sheep
Christ gives real authority to church officers and real duties of confession, discernment, and admonition to every Christian; neither truth cancels the other.
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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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The Word That Judges Every Judge
Every human judge—elder, scholar, council, or private reader—must be judged by the self-attesting Word that speaks with God’s own authority.
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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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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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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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Textual Reading, Translation, and Interpretation: Three Different Questions
A Greek or Hebrew reading, an English translation, and an interpretation of that wording are related but distinct objects. This article establishes the controls needed to determine whether a doctrine belongs to a critical edition, to a translator’s repair, or to a…
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Inherited Theology and the Problem of Hidden Borrowing
No interpreter approaches Scripture without prior theology, but a reconstruction succeeds only when its material premises can be traced to the corpus under examination. This article distinguishes legitimate theological inheritance from hidden textual, translational, interpretive, and doctrinal borrowing.
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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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NA28: The Current Published Nestle-Aland Baseline
NA28 remains the current published Nestle-Aland edition, but it is neither the whole critical-text ecosystem nor the newest Greek main text in every New Testament book. This article defines exactly what NA28 controls in the reconstruction test.
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