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This influential (and somewhat controversial) volume gathers a decade of essays (1987–1997) by Theodore Letis, Director of the Institute of Renaissance and Reformation Studies, written during his doctoral studies at the University of Edinburgh in defense of the Greek textual tradition that underlies the King James Bible. Originally published in both popular and scholarly journals, these articles range from accessible pieces to highly technical studies on translation philosophy, textual criticism, and the Protestant orthodox dogmatic traditions of the seventeenth century.
The collection also features four significant book reviews and two appendices, offering further insight into Letis’s thought. At its core, the work presents a rigorous defense of the Textus Receptus, the Ecclesiastical Text, over the various critical editions of the Greek New Testament that have dominated Biblical Studies since the era of B.B. Warfield. Letis challenges the prevailing belief that biblical authority resides in the original autographs, tracing the theological shift of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and contending instead that the Church’s authority rests upon the apographa—the faithfully preserved text handed down through the life of the Church.
This influential (and somewhat controversial) volume gathers a decade of essays (1987–1997) by Theodore Letis, Director of the Institute of Renaissance and Reformation Studies, written during his doctoral studies at the University of Edinburgh in defense of the Greek textual tradition that underlies the King James Bible. Originally published in both popular and scholarly journals, these articles range from accessible pieces to highly technical studies on translation philosophy, textual criticism, and the Protestant orthodox dogmatic traditions of the seventeenth century.
The collection also features four significant book reviews and two appendices, offering further insight into Letis’s thought. At its core, the work presents a rigorous defense of the Textus Receptus, the Ecclesiastical Text, over the various critical editions of the Greek New Testament that have dominated Biblical Studies since the era of B.B. Warfield. Letis challenges the prevailing belief that biblical authority resides in the original autographs, tracing the theological shift of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and contending instead that the Church’s authority rests upon the apographa—the faithfully preserved text handed down through the life of the Church.