Christian theology and both involve the application of descriptive and constructive tools in order to execute the task. It is a basic tenet of the canonical approach that one reflects theologically on the text as it has been received and shaped. Yet the emphasis on the normative status of the canonical text is not a denial of the significance of the canonical process which formed the text. The frequently expressed contrast between a ‘static’ canonical text and a ‘dynamic’ traditio-historical process
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