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). To see
the full review click on the title.
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. To see
the full review click on the title.
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.