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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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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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From Canon to Text
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended — Thesis 10.
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The Hidden-Providence Escape Hatch: Continuity When Convenient, Recovery When Necessary
Tests whether appeals to secret providential preservation can exempt isolated or newly recovered readings from the evidential weight of public continuity.
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Providential Preservation Is a Necessary Consequence of God’s Purpose in Inspiration
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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From Enlightenment Criticism to Westcott and Hort
Richard Simon had converted textual uncertainty into an argument for Roman tradition. If the extant copies could not identify and interpret the Word of God with sufficient certainty, the church must provide the certainty the text lacked. The preceding article examined that…
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Preservation Extends to the Words of Scripture
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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B. B. Warfield and the Evangelical Adoption of the Academy Game
Westcott and Hort did not invent restorationist textual criticism, but their 1881 edition gave it a commanding historical theory and an imposing scholarly form. The question confronting conservative Protestants was therefore no longer whether the new criticism existed. It was whether its…
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