The second charge brought against the defendant is that proof texting too easily suggests that doctrinal language is the biblical language with no sensitivity for the horizon of the interpreter or the hermeneutical task involved in working with the biblical language. In his essay “The Voice and the Actor: A Dramatic Proposal about the Ministry and Minstrelsy of Theology,” Kevin Vanhoozer considers the claims of Wayne Grudem’s presidential address to the Evangelical Theological Society in the year
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