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The Reformed Orthodox on Present Textual Purity
Surveys Reformed orthodox teaching on the present authenticity and purity of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures while acknowledging ordinary transmissional variation.
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How Christian Polemics Must Be Conducted: Truth, Evidence, Proportion, and Correction
Sets the biblical and editorial rules for truthful evidence, proportionate judgment, fair response, visible correction, and proper ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
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The Bible Is Not Like Any Other Ancient Book
One sentence governs much of modern textual criticism: For the purposes of critical study, the Bible must be treated like any other ancient book.
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From Owen to Warfield: When Preservation Became Restoration
Traces the shift from John Owen’s doctrine of a presently possessed authentic text to B. B. Warfield’s account of autographic inerrancy and critical restoration.
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The Word That Cannot Fail
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended — Thesis 7
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There Are No Brute Manuscripts
“Let the manuscripts speak for themselves.”
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“Textual Criticism Has No Explicit Biblical Guidelines”: The Admission That Controls the System
Analyzes the methodological consequence of admitting that textual criticism has no explicit biblical guidelines for ordering its probabilistic canons.
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God Makes the Canon; the Church Receives It
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended — Thesis 8
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The Authority Safeguard: Scripture Is the Final Court
Doctrinal judgment begins and ends beneath Holy Scripture; confessions and scholarship serve as real but subordinate witnesses.
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Inherited Theology and the Problem of Hidden Borrowing
No interpreter approaches Scripture without prior theology, but a reconstruction succeeds only when its material premises can be traced to the corpus under examination. This article distinguishes legitimate theological inheritance from hidden textual, translational, interpretive, and doctrinal borrowing.
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John Owen and the Learned Surrender He Refused
There is such a thing as learned error. A scholar may possess formidable languages, read rare manuscripts, command a vast bibliography, and still draw a mistaken conclusion. That possibility is generally admitted. Scholarship is a human activity, and human judgments are fallible.
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Probability All the Way Down: When the Critic’s Judgment Becomes the Final Court
Examines how a chain of revisable probabilities can make the critic’s judgment function as the final court at every disputed textual locus.
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