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What It Means to Play the Academy Game
The academy game begins when a Christian agrees to suspend Scripture's authority and preservation promises before textual evidence may be examined.
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The Word’s Testimony Concerning Itself
Scripture’s divine authority, self-attestation, and promise of preservation must govern the evidence rather than await permission from a neutral tribunal.
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How the Academy Game Became Normal
Modern reconstructionist assumptions became normal through a historical sequence of concessions, institutions, textbooks, and professional formation.
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Leaving the Game
Leaving the academy game means restoring languages, manuscripts, evidence, and debate to ministerial service beneath Christ—not abandoning scholarship.
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How to Reason with Unbelievers and Heretics Without Surrendering the Court
Christians may reason publicly with unbelievers and heretics by establishing facts, exposing governing authorities, and presenting evidence without conceding a neutral court.
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The Fear of the Lord Is the Beginning of Textual Knowledge
The fear of the Lord is the abiding beginning of textual knowledge, ordering the critic’s object, evidence, motives, confidence, and accountability.
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The Word That Bears Witness to Itself
The authority of Scripture is not the result of a successful argument. It is not produced by the church’s reception, conferred by an academic guild, excavated by archaeology, established by the number of surviving manuscripts, or created when an apologist defeats an…
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The Holy Ghost, the Church, and Recognition of the Text
God gives his Word; the Holy Ghost bears witness to that Word; and the church receives it. That order is neither accidental nor reversible.
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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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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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Richard Simon and the Roman Strategy of Textual Uncertainty
The preceding article examined John Owen’s refusal to let the learned apparatus become a court over Scripture. Nineteen years after Owen published that warning, Richard Simon supplied a remarkable demonstration of why it was necessary.
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From Extant Infallibility to Lost-Autograph Inerrancy
Part Sixteen considered B. B. Warfield’s historical role in bringing restorationist textual criticism into conservative American theology. The present article turns from that history to the doctrinal change itself. What happens when the perfection of Scripture is located exclusively in the first…
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