Category Archives: Christianity

White Paper: The Proper Boundaries of Emergence: A Biblicist Framework for Authorized Order, Human Agency, and Moral Accountability

Posted on January 2, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The concept of emergence—outcomes arising from interaction rather than direct command—is often viewed with suspicion in biblicist circles due to its association with naturalism, moral diffusion, and anti-teleological thinking. This white paper argues that Scripture not only accommodates … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Naming of Josiah: Parental Agency, Prophetic Foreknowledge, and the Nature of Named Deeds

Posted on January 1, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The naming of Josiah, king of Judah, occupies a unique place in biblical studies because his name appears in a prophecy approximately three centuries before his birth (1 Kings 13:2). This paper examines three closely related questions: Who … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Formation and Its Failure in Contemporary Society

Posted on December 31, 2025 by nathanalbright

Modern societies are increasingly marked by dysfunction in attention, self-regulation, moral reasoning, vocational stability, civic trust, and interpersonal responsibility. These failures are often attributed to individual psychological weakness, political polarization, or the disruptive effects of technology. While each of these … Continue reading →

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Innocence, Transgression, and Moral Knowledge: A Biblicist White Paper on Humanity’s State in Eden and the Biblical Meaning of Innocence

Posted on December 30, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This white paper examines the biblical concept of innocence, focusing first on humanity’s original state in Eden and then expanding to a broader scriptural theology of innocence across redemptive history. From a biblicist perspective, innocence is neither moral … Continue reading →

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White Paper: A Biblicist Framework for Engaging the Political Nature of Contemporary Life Without Partisan Capture

Posted on December 29, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Contemporary life is unavoidably political. Questions of authority, justice, coercion, property, family, speech, education, war, and welfare permeate daily existence. Yet Scripture nowhere authorizes believers to subordinate moral reasoning to secular ideological systems—whether partisan, nationalist, revolutionary, technocratic, or … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Sound Rhetoric in Sermonettes: Why Clarity and Economy Are Governing Virtues in This Genre of Speech

Posted on December 28, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Sermonettes occupy a unique rhetorical space within the life of the church. They are neither full sermons nor casual remarks, but compressed acts of instruction, exhortation, and framing delivered under strict time constraints and high expectations of doctrinal … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Bride of Christ and the Saints Before the New Covenant: A Biblicist Examination of Covenant Identity, Eschatology, and Scriptural Language

Posted on December 28, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This white paper examines whether Scripture identifies believers called before the inauguration of the New Covenant—that is, the faithful of the Hebrew Scriptures—as part of the Bride of Christ, or whether that identity is reserved for those called … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Chronology of the Tiqqunê Soferim: When Were the Old Testament Scribal Emendations Most Likely Made?

Posted on December 27, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This white paper examines the probable historical period in which the Tiqqunê Soferim—the eighteen acknowledged scribal emendations of the Hebrew Old Testament—were introduced into the consonantal text. Based on manuscript evidence, linguistic uniformity, Second Temple scribal culture, and … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Scribal Emendation and Theological Reverence: A Biblicist Comparison of Old Testament and New Testament Textual Interventions

Posted on December 27, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This white paper examines the phenomenon of scribal emendation in both the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) and the New Testament, comparing their frequency, transparency, motivations, and theological implications. From a biblicist perspective, it argues that the two testaments … Continue reading →

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“They Hated Me Without a Cause”: A Biblicist Examination of Uncaused Hatred

Posted on December 26, 2025 by nathanalbright

In John 15:25, Jesus Christ declares, “They hated Me without a cause,” explicitly invoking the language of the Psalms (Ps. 35:19; 69:4). At first glance this claim appears paradoxical. Surely the Jewish leadership of the first century could articulate reasons—theological, … Continue reading →

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