Showing posts with label Critical Text. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Critical Text. Show all posts

25 June 2022

The Spectrum of Received Text Advocacy

https://www.thegreaterheritage.com/product/why-i-preach-from-the-received-text-an-anthology-of-essays-by-reformed-ministers-book/

A friend and I frequently exchange notes regarding the text of the New Testament and some of the controversies surrounding it. We're both committed to the now minority position regarding the so-called Byzantine Text and the Textus Receptus and we both reject the Critical Text which has been widely embraced even by many who would otherwise claim to be conservatives and/or Confessionalists.

26 July 2020

Some Reflections on the Death of JI Packer


Whenever someone of the older generation of Evangelical leaders dies off, it's always a time to reflect. For me, I am forced to look back to my early days as a Christian in the mid-1990's and consider where I was then versus now and how things in general have changed.

09 February 2020

CBGM is Being More or Less Embraced


The author's acknowledgement that all Christians need to consider the issue of textual criticism is to be applauded but I'm left a little baffled by his tepid response to the issue of CBGM or the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method of textual reconstruction.

24 November 2018

The NASB 2020

updated April 2019
There are some noteworthy changes taking place in the pending edition of the New American Standard Bible, set to be released in 2020.
I count these changes as unfortunate and the episode serves as yet another warning. Though the publishers of the NASB defend their use of gender-inclusive language on non-feminist/non-egalitarian grounds, I am not convinced. Not one bit.