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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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Preservation Pertains to the Inspired Text, Not to the Material Survival of the Autographs
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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NA28: The Current Published Nestle-Aland Baseline
NA28 remains the current published Nestle-Aland edition, but it is neither the whole critical-text ecosystem nor the newest Greek main text in every New Testament book. This article defines exactly what NA28 controls in the reconstruction test.
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“Which TR?” and “Which Critical Text?”: Applying the Same Standard to Both
Applies the demand for a precisely identified text to both Received Text and critical-text positions, including Keister’s Sturzian approach.
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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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Preservation Does Not Require Every Manuscript or Copy to Be Errorless
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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UBS6: The Current Greek Text and the Published Proxy for NA29
UBS6 is the newest published Greek main text and is officially identified with the Greek text intended for NA29. Its role must be distinguished from NA28, the ESV, the ECM, and the still-forthcoming complete NA29 edition.
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Preserved or Merely Recoverable?
Part Seventeen distinguished the infallible canonical text from the fallible artifacts that witness to it. God did not immediately inspire every scribe, printer, editor, or translator. Yet the fallibility of particular witnesses does not imply that the inspired text disappeared with the…
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Preservation Entails the Public Availability of the Authentic Text
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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“Tweaking,” “Plus,” and “Minus”: The Rhetoric by Which Critical Revision Becomes Neutral
Shows how apparently neutral terms such as plus, minus, and tweaking can conceal the editorial and ecclesiastical consequences of textual decisions.
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Preservation in Name Only
Theological revolutions do not always begin by rejecting familiar words. Often the older vocabulary is retained while its doctrinal content is quietly altered. Inspiration may be affirmed while reduced to religious insight. Resurrection may be affirmed while redefined as the disciples’ continuing…
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