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The revised edition of A Theology for the Church retains its original structure, organized under these traditional theological categories: revelation, God, humanity, Christ, the Holy Spirit, salvation, the church, and last things. Each chapter within these sections contains answers to the following four questions: What does the Bible say? What has the church believed? How does it all fit...

historical by its nature. For this reason, then, the historical “happenedness” of the biblical story is indispensable to one’s faith. Devotion to God is based on God’s historical acts and furthermore must be expressed in and through one’s involvement with history.5 The object of faith is, therefore, not a suprahistorical reality but a historical reality and even a transhistorical reality. Newbigin concludes that the object of one’s faith (God) must be one who reigns over and in the world in which
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