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,…
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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
Open record →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…
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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…
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