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The Word That Bears Witness to Itself
The authority of Scripture is not the result of a successful argument. It is not produced by the church’s reception, conferred by an academic guild, excavated by archaeology, established by the number of surviving manuscripts, or created when an apologist defeats an…
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The Holy Ghost, the Church, and Recognition of the Text
God gives his Word; the Holy Ghost bears witness to that Word; and the church receives it. That order is neither accidental nor reversible.
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The Bible Is Not Like Any Other Ancient Book
One sentence governs much of modern textual criticism: For the purposes of critical study, the Bible must be treated like any other ancient book.
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There Are No Brute Manuscripts
“Let the manuscripts speak for themselves.”
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John Owen and the Learned Surrender He Refused
There is such a thing as learned error. A scholar may possess formidable languages, read rare manuscripts, command a vast bibliography, and still draw a mistaken conclusion. That possibility is generally admitted. Scholarship is a human activity, and human judgments are fallible.
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Richard Simon and the Roman Strategy of Textual Uncertainty
The preceding article examined John Owen’s refusal to let the learned apparatus become a court over Scripture. Nineteen years after Owen published that warning, Richard Simon supplied a remarkable demonstration of why it was necessary.
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From Enlightenment Criticism to Westcott and Hort
Richard Simon had converted textual uncertainty into an argument for Roman tradition. If the extant copies could not identify and interpret the Word of God with sufficient certainty, the church must provide the certainty the text lacked. The preceding article examined that…
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B. B. Warfield and the Evangelical Adoption of the Academy Game
Westcott and Hort did not invent restorationist textual criticism, but their 1881 edition gave it a commanding historical theory and an imposing scholarly form. The question confronting conservative Protestants was therefore no longer whether the new criticism existed. It was whether its…
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From Extant Infallibility to Lost-Autograph Inerrancy
Part Sixteen considered B. B. Warfield’s historical role in bringing restorationist textual criticism into conservative American theology. The present article turns from that history to the doctrinal change itself. What happens when the perfection of Scripture is located exclusively in the first…
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Critical Text Onlyism: A New Doctrine
Can We Trust the Reformers? He never saw it coming. He had just started attending a strict confessional church and was completely unprepared for the onslaught when he posted the Confessional view of Scripture to his FaceBook page. Fellow Christians now accused…
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The Preservation of Scripture
One of the benefits that God gave Israel as his covenanted people was committing to them the oracles of God. What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were…
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Response to James White on Augustine and the Pericope Adulterae
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