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Of the Holy Scripture I: The Westminster Question, the Critical Corpus, and the Catechism Map
The Westminster reconstruction test begins where Westminster begins: with Holy Scripture. This article fixes the historical target, names the critical corpus, maps the related Larger Catechism questions, and distinguishes the survival of a doctrine from its full derivation.
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Preservation Entails the Public Availability of the Authentic Text
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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Preservation in Name Only
Theological revolutions do not always begin by rejecting familiar words. Often the older vocabulary is retained while its doctrinal content is quietly altered. Inspiration may be affirmed while reduced to religious insight. Resurrection may be affirmed while redefined as the disciples’ continuing…
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Not an Intramural Debate: The Textual Question Concerns What God Has Spoken
The textual question cannot be confined to an academic side room. It asks which words constitute the inspired, preserved, authentic rule by which every doctrine, translation, sermon, and controversy must be judged.
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Preservation with a Preserved Text: The Confessional Verdict
States the series’ confessional verdict that preservation must terminate in an identifiable, publicly possessed Hebrew and Greek text prior to the critic’s judgment.
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No Neutral Ground Beneath the Apparatus: Faith, Science, and the Final Court
Manuscripts supply readings, not their own rank or theological meaning. Gaussen’s distinction between faith and historical science shows why evidence must serve Scripture’s doctrine rather than constitute the Church’s Bible.
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The Authentic Old Testament Is Preserved in the Hebrew Masoretic Textual Tradition
A doctrine of preservation that cannot identify the preserved text remains incomplete.
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Magisterial and Ministerial Textual Criticism
The deepest question in textual criticism is not how many manuscripts a scholar has collated, how early a codex is dated, or how sophisticated his account of scribal habits may be. It is not even which reading he selects at a particular…
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How Can Ye Believe? Academic Honor and the Fear of Man
Peer correction can strengthen Christian scholarship, but craving the academic guild’s recognition can become a rival loyalty that controls which biblical conclusions a scholar is willing to confess.
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The Authentic New Testament Is Preserved in the Greek Received Text Tradition
The doctrine of preservation must eventually identify a text.
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How Particular Readings May Be Tested
If textual criticism must be ministerial rather than magisterial, how should a particular reading actually be tested?
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An Apologetic with a Borrowed Standard: How Guild Dependence Weakens the Defense of the Faith
A Christian cannot consistently challenge autonomous reason after granting it final jurisdiction over the identity of Scripture. The defense of the faith must begin under Christ’s Lordship, including its textual foundation.
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