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Pastors and leaders of the classical church—such as Augustine, John Calvin, Martin Luther, and John Wesley—interpreted the Bible theologically, believing Scripture as a whole witnessed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Modern interpreters of the Bible questioned this premise. But in recent decades, a critical mass of theologians and biblical scholars have reasserted the priority of a theological...

What his original audience would have understood by this phrase was, doubtless, the ingathering of the scattered tribes of Israel, and what becomes eminently clear in all of the Gospels is that this coming together would happen in and through Jesus himself, much as the knitting together of ancient Israel happened in the person of David.4 In going out to the woman at the well, Zacchaeus, the man born blind, and the Syrophoenician woman, and in offering open table fellowship to saints, sinners, prostitutes,
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