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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...

Given these challenges to the doctrine, some very ancient and others the product of contemporary trends in thought and practice, any restatement of the clarity of Scripture might seem doomed to derision. Perhaps this explains the virtual disappearance of the doctrine from recent theological discussion. However, this is an historical anomaly. The doctrine of the clarity of Scripture has a long and honourable pedigree. It is demonstrably more than a construct of the sixteenth-century
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