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Debate Over the Preservation and Authority of Scripture. Part 3
4. Owen’s Response to Walton’s Emphasis on Variants One of the most significant challenges to John Owen’s doctrine of Scriptural preservation came from Brian Walton’s Biblia Polyglotta . Walton’s work, published in the mid-seventeenth century, included extensive textual notes and…
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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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Ministerial Judgment or Magisterial Judgment?
Human judgment is unavoidable, but it is faithful only when reason, evidence, church, and scholarship recognize rather than create divine authority.
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Orthodox Words and Autonomous Methods
Orthodox formulas cannot excuse a method that functionally relocates final authority from the self-attesting Word to autonomous human judgment.
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Why This Site Exists: A Lay Theological Publication Under the Authority of Holy Scripture
A declaration of what Confessional Bibliology is, what it is not, and why every claim published here must stand beneath the authority of Holy Scripture.
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