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The Text We Have: What Confessional Bibliology Actually Affirms
Confessional Bibliology names an original-language standard and distinguishes it from the history of printed editions and from the Authorized Version as an English translation.
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Who Is the Court? Ministerial and Magisterial Textual Criticism
The real divide is not between people who compare manuscripts and people who refuse to do so. It is between textual work that serves Scripture and textual work that functions as the court which constitutes Scripture.
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Circularity, Ultimate Authority, and the Myth of Neutral Textual Criticism
James White calls Confessional Bibliology viciously circular. The proper answer distinguishes unavoidable ultimate-authority reasoning from arbitrary question-begging and restores evidence to its ministerial place.
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Presuppositional Analysis: The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations?
The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations?: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question James R. White’s The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations? rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual…
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Hoisting the Church
The critical text can replace the received text only if the Church transfers to a reconstructed product the old foundation’s titles: inspired, preserved, authentic, self-attesting, and final. That transfer requires a warrant the reconstructive method cannot supply.
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Presuppositional Analysis: The Received Text: A Field Guide
The Received Text: A Field Guide: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Taylor DeSoto’s The Received Text: A Field Guide rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. DeSoto supplies a short Protestant…
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Treatises Concerning the Scriptures
Alternate title: Of the Divine Original of the Scriptures; Integrity and Purity of the Hebrew and Greek Text
John Owen, Treatises Concerning the Scriptures, in The Works of John Owen, vol. 16, ed. William H. Goold (Edinburgh: Johnstone and Hunter, 1853).
The relevant Owen treatises give a mature seventeenth-century Reformed account of Scripture’s divine original and of the integrity and purity of the Hebrew and Greek text. Owen distinguishes autographs, copies, variants, translations, and printed forms without allowing those distinctions to empty the…
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The Canon of the Holy Scriptures
Alternate title: From the Double Point of View of Science and of Faith
London: James Nisbet and Co., 1863.
Gaussen combines a historical case for the canon with a theological account of the believer’s certainty. He deliberately distinguishes evidence that may address the unbeliever from the divine ground of faith by which the church receives Scripture. The book mobilizes patristic testimony,…
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Modern Textual Criticism in the Light of Scripture - Part 3
Questioning the “Original Text”: A Presuppositional Critique of Richard Simon’s Manuscript Analyses ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introduction Few debates in church history have been as pivotal as those concerning the purity and…
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Modern Textual Criticism in the Light of Scripture - Part 5
“The True Church” in Conflict: Simon’s Catholic Polemics and Their Impact on Biblical Authority ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introduction From the earliest days of the Protestant Reformation, the notion of “the true church” was hotly…
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Modern Textual Criticism in the Light of Scripture - Part 7
The Roots of Modern Textual Criticism: Tracing the Influence of Simon’s Historical Methods ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introduction Textual criticism, the discipline that studies the history and transmission of ancient manuscripts to…
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Theopneustia - Review
1. Bibliographic Information Title: Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration Author: Louis Gaussen Professor of Systematic Theology, Oratoire, Geneva Publisher Year : George S. Blanchard Cincinnati, 1859 New and Revised Edition Length: Approximately 300+ pages…
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