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How to Recognize Magisterial and Ministerial Textual Criticism in Practice
Ten diagnostic questions reveal whether textual criticism recognizes a preserved text as a servant or reconstructs an absent text as a judge.
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Defining the King James Only Movement: Misrepresentations and Oversimplifications
Introduction In The King James Only Controversy, James R. White attempts to provide a comprehensive critique of what he terms the “King James Only” KJVO movement. White’s categorization of the KJV Only movement is segmented into five main groups, ranging from those…
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What Convocation Actually Authorized
The Revisers were not forbidden to consider Greek variants. Their own rules expressly authorized textual changes when the evidence was judged decidedly preponderating. The real controversy begins after that fact is admitted: the mandate made a received text answerable to reconstructive judgment.
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The Private Greek New Testament, 1853–1870
Westcott and Hort did not enter the Revision Company as neutral observers waiting for its evidence to form their views. They brought a Greek New Testament already seventeen years in preparation, grounded in a settled rejection of the received text and a…
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A Text Circulated Under Confidence
Westcott and Hort’s Greek text was not hidden from the Revisers; it was placed in their hands through a restricted private issue. The decisive imbalance was different: the Company used a mature rival text years before the public received the full theory…
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Hort’s Ascendancy and Scrivener’s Resistance
The Revision Company never formally adopted Westcott and Hort’s edition, yet a fellow Reviser testified that Hort persuaded the Company of the general soundness of his theory. Scrivener’s resistance remained real, but it increasingly operated against an ascendant critical framework.
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Were the Revisers Deceived?
The Revisers knew that Greek changes were permitted and knew Westcott and Hort’s private text was before them. The defensible charge is not an unnoticed substitution. It is methodological capture and institutional misdirection: reconstruction acquired authority under the conservative name of revision…
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Evidence as Servant, Not Sovereign: The Proper Work of Textual Inquiry
Defines the ministerial use of manuscripts, versions, linguistic study, and historical evidence beneath the doctrine and authority of Scripture.
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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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Doctrinal Survival Is Not Doctrinal Derivation
A doctrine’s survival somewhere in Scripture is not the same question as whether a specific confessional proposition can still be derived from its historical proof structure.
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