come to constitute the “problem” of revelation—the relation of reason to revelation, the limits of reason, and the historicity of human understanding—are not issues in scripture. That does not mean, however, that the Bible is not used as a resource in later discussions of revelation. As we shall see, both classical and contemporary discussions of revelation appeal to themes in scripture as warrants for their interpretations. A Morphology of Revelation Although in the first seventeen centuries of
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