times and places within the second stage, and we have the problem of trying to reconstruct the development of thought and their places within it. If we focus on the actual documents that compose the New Testament, we are dealing with items that stand in some kind of chronological development and cannot all be treated on the flat. And if we attempt to reconstruct the theology of the early church in the first century, we are even more committed to describing a rich tapestry of changing and developing
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