God is not summoned into the presence of reason; reason is summoned into the presence of God. John Webster1 This chapter is foundational to my entire proposal. If academic hermeneutics is to be reformed so as to become an adequate basis for the preaching and teaching ministry of healthy, growing churches, it must be reformed on a theological basis. But what does this mean? One thing it must mean is that the role of philosophy in hermeneutics must be secondary to
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