Unitarian Christian Alliance | Jerry Wierwille - Jesus "God and Savior"? Problematizing the Granville Sharp Rule @UnitarianChristianAlliance | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
In a 2023 UCA Conference presentation, Dr. Jerry Wierwille examines the "Granville Sharp rule", and its relevance to christology in Titus 2:13 and 2 Peter 1:1.
He explains the historical origin of the "rule", and analyzes the scholarship that has followed, to help us see the limitations of the rule, including six classes of exceptions identified by Daniel Wallace.
He demonstrates that the grammar (and Granville Sharp's specific rule) is not determinative of how to translate or interpret these key passages.
His paper concludes with a quote from Alexander Buttmann.
“It will probably never be possible, either in reference to profane literature or to the N. T., to bring down to rigid rules which have no exception, the inquiry when with several substantives connected by conjunctions the article is repeated, and when it is not...From this fact alone it follows, that in view of the subjective and arbitrary treatment of the article on the part of individual writers...it is very hazardous in particular cases to draw important inferences affecting the sense or even of a doctrinal nature, from the single circumstance of the use or omission of the article; see e. g. Tit. ii. 13; Jude 4; Pet. i. 1; and the expositors of these passages.”
In a 2023 UCA Conference presentation, Dr. Jerry Wierwille examines the "Granville Sharp rule", and its relevance to christology in Titus 2:13 and 2 Peter 1:1.
He explains the historical origin of the "rule", and analyzes the scholarship that has followed, to help us see the limitations of the rule, including six classes of exceptions identified by Daniel Wallace.
He demonstrates that the grammar (and Granville Sharp's specific rule) is not determinative of how to translate or interpret these key passages.
His paper concludes with a quote from Alexander Buttmann.
“It will probably never be possible, either in reference to profane literature or to the N. T., to bring down to rigid rules which have no exception, the inquiry when with several substantives connected by conjunctions the article is repeated, and when it is not...From this fact alone it follows, that in view of the subjective and arbitrary treatment of the article on the part of individual writers...it is very hazardous in particular cases to draw important inferences affecting the sense or even of a doctrinal nature, from the single circumstance of the use or omission of the article; see e. g. Tit. ii. 13; Jude 4; Pet. i. 1; and the expositors of these passages.”
