a way of approaching Scripture with eyes of faith and seeking to understand it within the community of faith. What are the salient identifying marks of this practice? I propose twelve identifying marks. (1) Theological exegesis is a practice of and for the church. We lavish our attention on the biblical texts because these texts have been passed on to us by the church’s tradition as the distinctive and irreplaceable testimony to events in which God has acted for our salvation. That is to say, theological
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