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Theodore Letis
Theodore Peter Letis (1951 – June 24, 2005) was an American theologian and church historian. He was an advocate of the Textus Receptus (TR). Letis was Lutheran, and argued for "the superiority of the TR based on the authority of the institutional church," a different approach to that of Christian fundamentalism, fundamentalists in the King James Only movement. Letis studied at Evangel College, Westminster Theological Seminary, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Concordia Theological Seminary, Emory University, and the University of Edinburgh. He directed the Institute for Renaissance and Reformation Biblical Studies and wrote ''The Ecclesiastical Text: Text Criticism, Biblical Authority and the Popular Mind'' and ''Today's Christian & the Church's Bible: A Time to Return to the Authorized Version''. Letis was the "first scholar to set out in detail" B. B. Warfield's "indebtedness to critical methodology for the defense of the faith." He argued that Warfield "broke with the prior Princ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Textus Receptus
The (Latin for 'received text') is the succession of printed Greek New Testament texts starting with Erasmus' ''Novum Instrumentum omne'' (1516) and including the editions of Robert Estienne, Stephanus, Theodore Beza, Beza, the House of Elzevir, Elzevir house, Simon de Colines, Colinaeus and Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, Scrivener. Erasmus' Latin/Greek New Testament editions and annotations were a major influence for the original German Luther_Bible#"September_Bible"_New_Testament_(1522), Luther Bible and the translations of the New Testament into English by William Tyndale. Subsequent ''Textus Receptus'' editions constituted the main Greek translation-base for the King James Version, the Spanish Reina-Valera translation, the Czech Bible of Kralice, the Portuguese Almeida Recebida, the Dutch Statenvertaling, the Russian Russian Synodal Bible, Synodal Bible and many other Protestant reformation, Reformation-era New Testament translations throughout Western, Northern and Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
