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Presuppositional Analysis: Critical History of the Text of the New Testament
Critical History of the Text of the New Testament: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Richard Simon’s Critical History of the Text of the New Testament rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human…
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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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Westminster's "Kept Pure in All Ages": Recovering the Assembly's Historical Claim
Westminster 1.8 confesses a providentially preserved, presently authentic Hebrew and Greek rule without identifying every witness or one flawless printing.
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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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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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Before Newton Called It a Corruption: Priscillian, Victor, Fulgentius, and the Long Latin Witness to 1 John 5:7
The long Latin history of 1 John 5:7 includes an unambiguous fourth-century citation, an African confession under Vandal persecution, and Fulgentius’s anti-Arian appeal. These witnesses do not make Latin equivalent to Greek or settle every textual question; they do make the slogan…
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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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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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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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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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