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Showing posts with label Theology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theology. Show all posts
Friday, August 22, 2025

Book Notice: The Authority of the Septuagint

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Over at his blog , Will Ross has an announcement about his new book with Greg Lanier titled The Authority of the Septuagint: Biblical, Histo...
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Thursday, November 30, 2023

Where should textual criticism be discussed in systematic theology?

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This is a question I have been pondering since giving my paper at ETS this year on textual criticism in the Reformation. Note carefully that...
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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Three New Essays on Theology and Textual Criticism

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At ETS last year, the conveners of the session on inerrancy invited several people to give papers on inerrancy and textual criticism. That i...
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Friday, August 26, 2022

Richard Brash on Preservation (again)

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Over at the TCI website, Richard Brash has a short argument about providence and textual preservation. Along with his careful distinctions ...
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Monday, December 06, 2021

Last Two Videos on NT Textual Criticism and Askeland on GJW

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I’ve now uploaded the last two guest lectures from my Fall TC course. The first is from James Snapp on Mark 16 and the second is Richard Bra...
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Friday, November 12, 2021

New Book by Ed Gallagher on the Septuagint’s Place in History and Theology

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I’m not sure how I missed this new book by Edmon Gallagher called  Translation of the Seventy: History, Reception, and Contemporary Uses of ...
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Wednesday, July 07, 2021

Journal Issue on Biblical Authority and Textual Criticism

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The latest issue of the Southern Baptist Journal of Theology is devoted to textual criticism and bibliology. The main essays are published...
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Thursday, March 11, 2021

Cardinal Bellarmine, Trent’s Major Apologist, on Important Variants

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I’ve been doing some reading on the Council of Trent and its aftermath the last few weeks and would like to share some interesting finds. Fi...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

The Use of Scripture’s Self-Authentication to Solve Variants

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On this 40th (?) day of quarantine, I find myself wondering if there are writers in the Reformed tradition who use the doctrine  of Scriptu...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

New Book on the Doctrine of Preservation by Richard Brash

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Outside of certain TR or KJV-only circles, the doctrine of preservation doesn’t seem to get a lot of attention from Protestants anymore. Bi...
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Thursday, August 08, 2019

Is Textual Criticism Theologically Safe?

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Why do so many Evangelicals study textual criticism? (Besides because it’s the best.) Here’s one answer that I have come across several tim...
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Friday, April 12, 2019

Articles on Textual Criticism

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It’s hard to keep up with everything that’s published even in one’s own discipline these days. At any rate, here are a few articles I’ve re...
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Thursday, April 11, 2019

Mark Ward: A New Tool for Teaching Textual Criticism to English Speakers

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Today’s guest post is from Mark Ward. Mark received his PhD from Bob Jones University in 2012; he now serves the Church as an Academic Edit...
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Monday, February 25, 2019

Richard Baxter on the Autographs and Textual Criticism

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Richard Baxter (1615–1691) is one of the most famous of the English Puritans. He was a “church leader, poet, hymnodist, theologian, and con...
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Thursday, January 17, 2019

Leander Keck on Textual Criticism and Inerrancy

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I once had the pleasure of meeting Leander Keck in Cambridge where he used to attend the NT seminars when he was in town. Since then I have...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

James Ussher: Why Unsolved Variants Don’t Obscure the Faith (1649)

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As time allows (and it doesn’t allow much these days), I continue to be interested in how theologians in the Reformation period and after d...
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Friday, November 30, 2018

Why Didn’t God Preserve the Biblical Autographs?

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In the volume on Holy Scripture in his studies in dogmatics, G. C. Berkouwer, theologian at the Free University of Amsterdam, has a few pag...
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Thursday, April 12, 2018

Greg Lanier: Locating the Inspired ‘Original’ Amid Textual Complexity

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Greg Lanier is an assistant professor and dean of students  at Reformed Theological Seminary and a good friend of mine from Cambridge. Re...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Poll: Text as Corollary of Canon

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Let’s take a poll on this statement from Carl E. Armerding: “Moreover, the development of an authoritative text is a natural corollary to an...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

The Appeal to the Autograph in Early Protestant Theology

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Back when I had time for such things, I did a bit of digging into how early Protestant theologians viewed the role of the autographs in th...
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