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A Certain Faith Built on a Provisional Text
Bahnsen rejected apologetic foundations that leave Christianity merely probable. Yet a reconstructionist textual model makes the church’s operative wording revisable in principle at every disputed place.
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The Myth of the Neutral Manuscript Fact
Manuscripts are real facts in God’s world, but age, brevity, difficulty, genealogy, and transmissional probability never rank themselves. Bahnsen’s rejection of brute facts applies inside textual criticism.
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The Only Honest Ways Off the Plane
An unwanted conclusion can be escaped by retracting a premise, disproving a necessary connection, exposing equivocation, or showing invalid inference. Denial does not reroute an argument.
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When Textual Science Becomes Magisterial
Textual science becomes magisterial not when scholars study manuscripts, but when their revisable judgments regulate the identity and extent of the authority by which those judgments must be tried.
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A Fallible Servant or a Final Court? The Place of Textual Criticism
Textual criticism need not claim infallibility to become functionally supreme. Its proper place is determined by whether it recognizes a preserved Word or conditions which words may presently exercise final authority.
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Naturalism in Theological Dress
Historical evidence and ordinary providence are Christian goods. Naturalism enters when revealed promise is excluded and an autonomous process is made sufficient to account for the text.
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Bringing Down the House
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When “God Lied” Means “There Is No God”
Within Christian theism, a lying god is not a damaged version of the true God. He is another being. A doctrine which requires divine falsehood denies the only God Scripture reveals.
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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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