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When Textual Science Becomes Magisterial
Textual science becomes magisterial not when scholars study manuscripts, but when their revisable judgments regulate the identity and extent of the authority by which those judgments must be tried.
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“God Was Manifest” in the Canonical Context
Θεός produces an explicit confession of the incarnation, fits the grammar, and agrees with Scripture’s repeated identification of Christ as God. Canonical harmony is not a substitute for manuscript evidence, but neither is it irrelevant.
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Preservation as the Test Case
Biblical preservation concerns the words God gave and kept for the continuing faith and final appeal of the church. A surviving pool of evidence is not yet the confessional doctrine.
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Presuppositional Analysis: The Inspiration of Scripture
The Inspiration of Scripture: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Robert D. Preus’s The Inspiration of Scripture rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Preus investigates seventeenth-century Lutheran dogmaticians on Scripture, seeking…
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Book Review: The Inspiration of Scripture
The Inspiration of Scripture Bibliographical Notice Robert D. Preus, The Inspiration of Scripture (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1957; supplied edition). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict Robert D. Preus’s The Inspiration of Scripture must be judged according to its actual…
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A Fallible Servant or a Final Court? The Place of Textual Criticism
Textual criticism need not claim infallibility to become functionally supreme. Its proper place is determined by whether it recognizes a preserved Word or conditions which words may presently exercise final authority.
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One Book at a Time: Dates, Translators, and Profiles
The Greek biblical books do not share one translator, date, or method. Before a Greek difference can be treated as evidence for another Hebrew text, the translation profile of that particular book must be established.
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From Simon to Restorationism: When Scripture Is Treated Like Every Other Ancient Book
This article examines the shift from ministerial textual comparison to a magisterial restorationism that treats Scripture like ordinary literature.
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John Owen's "Divine Original": Authority Joined to Integrity and Purity
Owen's paired 1659 treatises join Scripture's divine authority to the integrity and purity of the extant Hebrew and Greek text without making copyists inspired.
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Naturalism in Theological Dress
Historical evidence and ordinary providence are Christian goods. Naturalism enters when revealed promise is excluded and an autonomous process is made sufficient to account for the text.
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When Surviving Witnesses Contradict One Another
Surviving manuscripts do not speak with one voice. A rule that makes mere survival authoritative collapses the moment two extant witnesses give incompatible readings.
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Presuppositional Analysis: Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration
Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Louis Gaussen’s Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Gaussen…
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