the church today from its opponents both within and without. For example, the church has at times swung between an arid faith full of knowledge but with little vitality and an experience-centered faith with little intellectual content. An overemphasis in either direction has proven destructive to Christian experience. Though this is a contemporary issue of importance, it is not the first time the church has been forced to articulate the relationship between “the faith as known” and “the faith as
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