evangelicals can appropriate and more clearly emphasize in order to move beyond biblicism. Yet such short, isolated Christocentric statements are rarely if ever strong enough to counter the implications of the many other declarations about complete coverage, the handbook model, and so on, which tend to lead to a flat, centerless, biblicist reading of scripture. The reality is that it is not possible to take fully seriously a Christocentric hermeneutic of scripture and to hold to biblicism. One or
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