then we consider the dogmatic implications. In other words, we finish with what the text contributes to our understanding of the truth in concert with other consequences reached from other texts.36 Goldsworthy notes, “The dogmatic basis of biblical theology lies in the fact that no empirical datum of exegesis has independent meaning, and no datum of theology or interpretation has independent meaning. Facts, logic and method are not independent of revealed truth. To grant them such independence would
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