running close behind the accusation of biblicism is the rhetorically not-so-subtle “and no one wants to be guilty of that, do they?” Kissing it on both cheeks is the accusation of bibliolatry, which is even worse than biblicism. For the biblical specialist, the retorts are “systematician” or “dogmatician” or “unbiblical” or “prolegomena-ism.”39 Markus Bockmuehl suggests that there is a ten-to-one ratio of biblicists to a more liberalized theological approach.40 What is biblicism? There are two uses
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