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title: 'The Legitimate Province of Biblical Criticism'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'James Renwick Wilson Sloane'
date: 1879-12-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Hermeneutics'
- 'Bible and Canon'
- 'Theological Method'
scriptures:
- 'Romans 3'
- 'John 14'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/sloane-1879-the-legitimate-province-of-biblical-criticism
---

# The Legitimate Province of Biblical Criticism

Van Oosterzee defends biblical criticism as the careful work of recovering the true text, distinct from hermeneutics and exegesis, and essential to reliable systematic theology.

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