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This outstanding work offers a short account of the nature of Christian theology. In a series of six lectures, John Webster explores the privilege of thinking and speaking of God in light of “the staggering good news of Jesus Christ.” How might faith approach that task? Webster proposes that we do theology well when we recognize the gospel as the most important reality. He considers the...

standardized. Local hermeneutical practice has become subordinate to general theory, and general theory has been expounded in such a way that it alone furnishes the norms for what ought to happen in any particular field of reading.7 What are the effects of this on Christian reading of the Bible? First, and most obviously, it has issued in the gradual decline of theological description of what happens when the church reads the Bible. It is not merely that modern academic convention demands that the
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