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Evangelical Theology is a systematic theology written from the perspective of a biblical scholar. Michael F. Bird contends that the center, unity, and boundary of the evangelical faith is the evangel, or Gospel, as opposed to things like justification by faith or inerrancy. The evangel is the unifying thread in evangelical theology and the theological hermeneutic through which the various loci of...

than a list of theological propositions for our assent. Yet some theologians talk as if God did us a disfavor by giving us the Bible in the form that we have it. Because of the variegated shape of Scripture, one has to reorganize the Bible into a list of propositions to be affirmed. One theologian goes so far as to state: “The Bible is to the theologian what nature is to the scientist, a body of unorganized or only partly organized facts. God has not seen fit to write the Bible in the form of a systematic
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