Magisterial and Ministerial Textual Criticism
The deepest question in textual criticism is not how many manuscripts a scholar has collated, how early a codex is dated, or how sophisticated his account of scribal…
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Why “No Doctrine Is Affected” Is Not Enough
Few reassurances appear more frequently in discussions of textual criticism than the claim that no Christian doctrine is affected by textual variants. The statement is meant to calm…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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