Inconsistency: Testing the Canons Against Themselves
The canons of textual criticism often point in different directions. Bahnsen’s inconsistency test asks whether critics apply stable rules or change the weight of the rules as the…
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The canons of textual criticism often point in different directions. Bahnsen’s inconsistency test asks whether critics apply stable rules or change the weight of the rules as the…
Open record →What happens when the harder reading is also the longer reading? That plain collision opens the deeper question of who has authority to rank the canons and constitute…
Open record →Modern textual criticism possesses evidence, learning, and elaborate tools. The prior question is whether its selection and weighting of that evidence escape mere opinion, relativism, unargued bias, and…
Open record →Analyzes the methodological consequence of admitting that textual criticism has no explicit biblical guidelines for ordering its probabilistic canons.
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