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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