d. Insofar as this faith makes claims beyond the fray of experience, it offers to the faithful community a normative standing place that may not be derived from the common theology but that articulates a normative truth about God not subject to the processes of the articulation. I understand this point to be implied in the canonical position of Childs. e. A careful understanding of the literature shows that we are not free to resolve the tension. The Old Testament both partakes of the common theology
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