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Theology Is for Preaching: Biblical Foundations, Method, and Practice is unavailable, but you can change that!

Is it right to “just preach the text”? Why do we preach and do theology? How do we relate them? And how do they relate to God’s word? Theology Is for Preaching helps preachers with theology and theologians with preaching. Though diverse in contexts and disciplines, the contributors share a commitment to equipping the saints to “rightly handle the word of truth.” Through essays on foundations,...

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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