theology ought to shape its methodology by developing its own intrasystematic categories.46 This interpretative and theological process is set forth by Richard Lints, in what he calls the three horizons of redemptive interpretation—the textual (immediate context at the grammatical-historical level), epochal (context of the period of revelation) and canonical (context of the entirety of revelation) horizons.47 That is, equal study must be given to all texts, rightly interpreted within their respective