For others, faith names not so much the defining subjective features of religious consciousness as the objective content of Christian religion. Faith is thus construed as a set of doctrines, a peculiar body of teaching and instruction. In short, faith is a divine “deposit”—with the church or the Bible acting as its repository. Although these two broadly defined ways of speaking strive to do justice to the divine source as well as to the richness, density, and historical scope of Christian life, both