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The Bible has long served as the standard for Christian practice, yet believers still disagree on how biblical passages should be interpreted and applied. Only when readers fully understand the constructs that inform their process of moving from Scripture to theology—and those of others—can Christians fully evaluate teachings that claim to be “biblical.” Here, scholars who affirm an inspired...

To “principlize” is to [re]state the author’s propositions, arguments, narrations, and illustrations in timeless abiding truths with special focus on the application of those truths to the current needs of the Church.3 Later, in that same textbook, I explained: Principlization seeks to bridge the “then” of the text’s narrative [or any other biblical genre] with the “now” needs of our day; yet it refuses to settle for cheap and quick solutions which confuse our own personal point of view (good or
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