and helpful ways that God’s faithful and corrective leading accompanies and underwrites our communal and tradition-laden locations and influences these at every point and turn. Nevertheless, there remains an influential contingent of Enlightenment epistemological ideals that descry these influences and continue to distort our understanding of the act of reading the Bible. An initial goal of this work is to survey a range of contemporary proposals; to both demonstrate the continuing bias of this idealism
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