to theology. That is, does biblical mean that the theology is in line with biblical truth or merely that it derives from the Bible? Though ideally these perspectives should result in one and the same conclusion as to biblical teaching, in actual practice this is often not the case because though a theology may be biblical in the sense that it is not anti- or unbiblical, it may contain ideas that are extra-biblical, that is, ideas drawn from philosophy, science, history, sociology, or any number of