experience, however sincere, life-transforming, and important that may be, but divinely revealed truth. Truth is not falsified by our lack of experience but the authenticity of our experience is tested by truth. We can now succinctly state what integrative theology is ideally and what it is not. The significance of these points will become increasingly clear in the development of subsequent chapters. Integrative theology seeks to be human, not humanistic; person-related, not merely relational;