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Critical biblical scholarship as developed and defined since the mid-eighteenth century has played a significant and welcome role in pressing us to take biblical texts seriously on their own terms and diverse contexts. With the postmodern turn, additional questions have surfaced—including the theological and ecclesial location of biblical interpretation, the significance of canon and creed for...

especially within a “culture of fear” in which the media and market forces not only espouse the virtue of eliminating fear but also use fear as a tool to elicit attention and create desire.3 Second, biblically, the Johannine literature is a (if not the) dominant voice in the minds of contemporary Christians so that when one reads, “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love” (1 John 4:18), the
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