we must know, of course, that it is only God who can keep us from it.8 We enter this theological pilgrimage empowered by the Spirit of the living God and accompanied by the saints of the ages. Given our review of these issues of prolegomena (first things) I would like to conclude with a working definition of the task before us. In its most fundamental form, Christian theology is an active response to the revelation of God in Jesus Christ, whereby the believer, in the power of the Holy Spirit, subordinate
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