of what the Bible has to say about God and his relation to the world and to humankind. It is often pointed out, however, that the term “biblical theology” can be understood in two different ways. It can be taken to mean a Christian theology that is based upon the Bible, what Ebeling (1963) called “theology that accords with the Bible, scriptural theology” (79). The problem with this is that all forms of Christian theology claim to be based in some way upon the Bible. The term might be used in a comparative
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