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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