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In A Theology of Word & Spirit Bloesch draws out the contemporary implications of the biblically founded theology of Augustine, Luther, Calvin and Barth. He also offers fresh and faithful discussions of relativism, the present church conflict over biblical authority, fideism and rationalism, feminine–gender language for God, narrative theology, and the hermeneutical problem. Harvesting the fruit...

(David Tracy). Instead, it is the articulation of a divine revelation that breaks into our experience from the beyond and transforms it. The Catholic philosophical theologian Bernard Lonergan has defined theology as “reflection upon conversion in a culture.”47 If this were taken as an exhaustive definition (which Lonergan does not intend) it would end in rank subjectivism, since human conversion takes many forms. The focus should be not on the experience of faith but on its object—its ground and
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