Our Authorized Bible Vindicated
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Our Authorized Bible Vindicated is a book by Seventh-day Adventist scholar Dr. Benjamin G. Wilkinson advocating the King James Only (KJO) position, published in 1930.
Many of the book's argument have become set talking-points of the KJO position, and were adopted into the movement through the use of Wilkinson's material by David Otis Fuller in the book Which Bible?.
As can be seen in the book, Wilkinson states that the Old Latin version, instead of the Vulgate, was the Bible of the medieval Waldensians and that the Old Latin corresponds textually with the Greek Textus Receptus.[1][2]
This book is important today because it was later used to popularize certain King James Only arguments, including the following: arguments against Westcott and Hort; arguments against Origen; a belief in two textual streams (the 'pure' Antioch text, the 'bad' Alexandrian text); the superiority of the Textus Receptus; and so on. While King James Only advocacy existed before this book, many of the arguments for it were propagated by this book.
The copyright of the text has expired, so it is available online (see external links below). Note that the majority of Adventists do not support the King-James-Only movement.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "The Truth About the Waldensian Bible and the Old Latin Version" Baptist Bible Heritage 2, no. 2 (summer 1991): pgs. 1, 7-8, by Doug Kutilek.
- ^ One Bible Only? Examing Exclusive Claims for the King James Bible by Roy E Beacham and Kevin T Bauder, editors, Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids, MI, 2001, pgs 44, 54.
[edit] External links
- One copy online.
- Another copy online.
- The Unlearned Men traces how this book influenced modern King James Only advocacy.
- Did Fuller get his views on the KJV from a cultist? argues against the above view, and states that fundamentalists held to the KJV-only position before Wilkinson's book was written. (This assertion, that the KJV-Only movement existed before Wilkinson, is true; but Wilkinson pioneered many elements which have become standard talking points in the movement. See, for example, Dean Burgon who was a KJV defender in the late 19th century.)
