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The Necessity of Some Circles: The Self-Attesting Nature of Scripture
18 Comments Published by Cynthia R. Nielsen February 18th, 2006 in Biblical Hermeneutics, Calvin, Hermeneutics, ScriptureThe Westminster tradition makes a distinction between “self-evident” and “self-attesting” or “self-authenticating” (autopiston; see Calvin’s Institutes, I.vii.5) and claims that Scripture is “self-attesting.” For example, the Westminster Confession of Faith 1.4 reads,
“The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, and obeyed, depends not upon the testimony of any man, or [...]
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