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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...

failure at an elementary level: recasting God in the dimensions of his creatures. As Karl Barth would put it, ‘The revelation attested in the Bible is the revelation of the God who by nature cannot be unveiled to men.’13 . This objection lay close to the heart of the dispute about Scripture’s clarity at the time of the Reformation. Luther and those who stood with him reacted to what they saw as a
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