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The Formation of Christian Doctrine is a high-level academic study of the history of Christian doctrinal development. The book distinguishes at length between the scholarly term “inventio” (making explicit what is implicit in the biblical revelation) and the idea of “invention” (presenting a novelty as Christian teaching that conflicts with the biblical revelation). Specifically, The Formation...

illumined by the Holy Spirit to the free churches. In other words, although I might have written it better, I could not have written this book with any substantive difference, precisely because the foundational and developmental principles delineated herein are what we believe have been established by God through the Bible. Admittedly, the free churches could be wrong and this writer even more so, but it will take the Spirit’s illumination of the biblical text to convince otherwise. Until then we
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