certainty; instead, we have a practical or moral certainty that is ever more fully realized in a life of repentance and obedience.18 A theology of word and Spirit could easily be confused with foundationalism because it presupposes an indefeasible criterion outside ourselves that becomes the infallible standard for faith and practice. Yet this criterion or authority does not consist in a priori assumptions or universal principles or transcendental ideals that are impressed on the mind by divine