advance or discovery, or of creative genius. Once such matters are raised, of course, there must immediately follow a careful consideration of the criteria of evaluation which might be deployed in addressing them. Part of our concern in this book will be with the various ‘authorities for faith’ (scripture, tradition, reason, context, experience and so forth) and the ways in which they can be, have been, and are used and abused in the doing of theology. Third, faith must seek to understand its place