should handle Introduction in due subordination to the study of the actual contents of the Word of God.4 In the years following Caven’s statement, the evangelical church would lose its emphasis on these “actual contents” in their defense of the text and in doing so de-emphasize the glorious redemptive story so essential to the message of OT and NT theology. The final threat to evangelical appreciation of the redemptive story is the propensity of Western culture toward pragmatism. From homiletics