of the importance of the text of Scripture and the interpretation of its original languages to theological formulation—that is, as a characteristic brought to theology by the biblical and exegetical interests of the Reformers. The exegetical emphasis of the Reformation, on this point at least, cannot be regarded as a denial of theological system but, as we have indicated with regard to other points of doctrine, a pressure toward the development of a distinctively Protestant theological system.59
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