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The Preconditions of Textual Intelligibility
Textual criticism is possible only because reality is ordered, language is meaningful, testimony is knowable, truth is binding, and a determinate text exists. Those conditions require the Christian worldview the critical method brackets.
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Presuppositional Analysis: The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception
The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Greg L. Bahnsen’s The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Bahnsen’s philosophical dissertation analyzes self-deception, not…
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Book Review: The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception
The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception Bibliographical Notice Greg L. Bahnsen, The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception (doctoral dissertation, supplied edition). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict Greg L. Bahnsen’s The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception must be judged according to its actual undertaking.…
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An Atheistic Argument and an Inconsistent Christian
A doctrine may deny the God of Scripture in its necessary consequence while its advocate sincerely professes Christian faith. The contradiction must be described without concealment or slander.
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Who Drew the Flight Path?
A grave doctrinal conclusion is only as sound as the route used to reach it. Exact entailment requires the proposition, definitions, premises, warrants, and possible exits to be stated in full.
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Not an Intramural Debate: The Textual Question Concerns What God Has Spoken
The textual question cannot be confined to an academic side room. It asks which words constitute the inspired, preserved, authentic rule by which every doctrine, translation, sermon, and controversy must be judged.
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How Can Ye Believe? Academic Honor and the Fear of Man
Peer correction can strengthen Christian scholarship, but craving the academic guild’s recognition can become a rival loyalty that controls which biblical conclusions a scholar is willing to confess.
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An Apologetic with a Borrowed Standard: How Guild Dependence Weakens the Defense of the Faith
A Christian cannot consistently challenge autonomous reason after granting it final jurisdiction over the identity of Scripture. The defense of the faith must begin under Christ’s Lordship, including its textual foundation.
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Bahnsen Against Bahnsen: The Question the Apologist Left Unfinished
Greg Bahnsen defended the self-attesting Word, rejected neutrality, and demanded Christian certainty. His doctrine of the extant biblical text did not consistently carry those principles through preservation, textual identity, and final authority.
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No Neutrality—Not Even in Textual Criticism
Collation can be technical, but no scholar interprets manuscript age, genealogy, scribal habits, or internal probability apart from controlling beliefs about God, history, authority, and preservation.
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The Self-Attesting Word and the Impossibility of a Higher Court
An ultimate authority cannot be certified by a more ultimate tribunal. The doctrine of Scripture must therefore explain how the self-attesting Word is recognized in extant words without making critical reconstruction its higher court.
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The Standard James White Said Did Not Exist
A question at the end of the Riddle-White debate exposed the prior problem modern textual criticism cannot evade: by what ultimate standard are manuscripts, canons, and critics themselves judged?
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