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A Clear and Present Word: The Clarity of Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

By almost any measure, a bold and confident use of the Bible is a hallmark of Christianity. Underlying such use are a number of assumptions about the origin, nature, and form of the Biblical literature concerning its authority, diversity, and message. However, a lack of confidence in the clarity or perspicuity of Scripture is apparent in Western Christianity. Despite recent, sophisticated...

to construct our own at this point. The objections themselves need to be taken seriously and the weight of the arguments borne in full. As the history of Christian theology more generally makes plain, far too much theologizing has in fact been a response to a caricature rather than engagement with an issue. . This was one of the chief objections raised against the idea of Scripture’s clarity by the great
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