the church. It was argued either that the Bible is its own interpreter, or that every person is capable of interpretation. What was noticed is that there is much in scripture that is not credited in or contained by the church’s settled consensus. We in the United Church of Christ are children of that liberated recognition that the Bible must have its own say, even when it abrasively rubs against the church’s settled judgment. Second, the emergence of historical-critical scholarship was an attempt
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