The Biblical Text

 

Edward Freer Hills's Contribution to the Revival of the Ecclesiastical Text
This book is by Dr. Theodore Letis, the leading scholar currently defending the traditional text of the Greek New Testament. It is a excellent and concise overview of the traditional way the church has regarded the text of Scripture and the radical innovations spearheaded by textual critics and introduced into conservative Presbyterianism by B. B. Warfield, that have shifted the church's views to the current quagmire that has left the evangelical church bereft of any meaningful doctrine of inspiration and inerrancy. To see the full review click on the title.

The Majority Text
This book, also by Dr. Letis, discusses the issues of the Majority text versus the critical text, as well as the weakness of the Majority Text position vis a vis the Textus Receptus. It gives the reader a brief overview of the three main textual positions held by evangelical Christians while setting forth the superiority of the traditional text, the text of the Reformation church, known as the Textus Receptus (Latin for the "Received Text). 
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The Ecclesiastical Text
This book, again by Dr. Letis, is a defense of the traditional text of the Greek New Testament. This is the text that churches have historically defended and used and hence is called the Ecclesiastical text. This is opposed by the critical text that is generated by a cadre of independent textual scholars, without and church oversight, and therefore frequently without any faith requirements or doctrinal commitments,  and propagated by various Bible Societies. 
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The King James Version Defended
This book by Edward Freer Hills is must reading for any who would take up the torch in defense of the word of God, the Holy Scriptures, in our day. Hills was the premier defender of the traditional text of the Greek New Testament in the middle of the twentieth century and was uniquely qualified, by his academic achievements,  to confront them on their own turf. His lonely, but inspiring defense of the historic views of the church with respect to the Scriptures is well worth reading. To see the full review click on the title.

Logical Criticisms of Textual Criticism
This book by Gordon Clark is a disappointment to any who may have been hoping for a substantive confrontation with the follies and errors of textual criticism. Clark merely nibbles around the edges of the massive problems confronting the churches and their Bibles by the high priests of textual criticism. The book lives up to the specifics of its title by merely offering a few logical criticisms of the more extreme conclusions of the textual critics, all the while accepting their basic premises and general conclusions. A defense of the faith this is not!  To see the full review click on the title.

 

 

 

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