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Garnet Howard Milne
Garnet Howard Milne is a contemporary author whose Has the Bible Been Kept Pure?
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John Owen
John Owen was the foremost English Reformed Congregational theologian of the seventeenth century.
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Edward F. Hills
Edward Freer Hills was an American Presbyterian scholar trained at Yale, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Harvard.
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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus was the leading northern Christian humanist of the early sixteenth century.
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The Myth of the Neutral Manuscript Fact
Manuscripts are real facts in God’s world, but age, brevity, difficulty, genealogy, and transmissional probability never rank themselves. Bahnsen’s rejection of brute facts applies inside textual criticism.
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The Apparatus Is Not an Eyewitness
A modern apparatus gives a necessary editorial summary, not a time machine. Alexandrinus must be judged through its material history, dated observers, transmissional possibilities, and ecclesiastical reception.
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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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Providence Smuggled into the Apparatus
God's universal providence governs the survival of every manuscript. It does not reveal that a particular manuscript was preserved to correct the church's Bible. Treating survival as such a revelation confuses providence with a hidden canon.
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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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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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No Truthful God, No Saving Gospel
The gospel comes as divine testimony and promise. A doctrine which makes God capable of false speech removes the ground of forgiveness, resurrection, eternal life, and assurance.
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Aristeas and the Seventy: What the Story Does—and Does Not—Prove
The Letter of Aristeas is an ancient Jewish defense of a Greek Torah, not a dated archival certificate for one complete and miraculously inspired Greek Old Testament.
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