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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Theology: Texts and Contexts | |
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| Preliminaries to Prolegomena | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Nature and Purpose of a Theological Vision | |
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| Philosophical Assumptions | |
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| The Face of Evangelicalism and the Task of Evangelical Theology | |
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| Defining Evangelicalism | |
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| The Second Great Awakening and the Evangelical Empires | |
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| The Fundamentals and the War with Modernism | |
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| Social Engagement and Adaptation | |
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| Identity and Independence | |
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| A Theological Patchwork Quilt | |
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| The Foundation of Theology | |
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| Epistemological Grace | |
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| The Use of the Bible in Theology | |
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| Stages of Reorientation | |
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| The Strange Unity of Two Authors | |
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| Redemptive History and the Progress of Theology | |
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| Concluding Comments | |
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| The Trajectory of Theology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Use of Tradition in Theology | |
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| The Distant Past | |
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| Antitraditionalism | |
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| Antitraditional Traditionalism | |
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| The Private Bible | |
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| The Parachurch Church | |
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| Temporal Piety | |
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| The Mean between Two Extremes | |
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| The Use of Culture in Theology | |
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| The Power and Ambiguity of Culture | |
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| Modern Culture | |
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| Populist Culture and Popular Dissent | |
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| Theological Responsibilities | |
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| The Use of Reason in Theology | |
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| Native and Cultural Rationality | |
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| Irresistible Beliefs | |
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| Skepticism and Doubt | |
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| Internal and External Reason | |
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| Theology: Past and Present | |
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| The Theological Past | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Magisterial Reformation | |
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| Martin Luther | |
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| John Calvin | |
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| The Reformed Scholastics | |
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| Jonathan Edwards | |
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| Geerhardus Vos | |
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| The Theological Present | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Is Postmodern Theology? | |
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| The Cultural Setting of Postmodern Theology | |
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| The Roots of Postmodern Theology | |
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| The Enlightenment Legacy: The Critique of Authority | |
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| The Enlightenment Legacy: The Critique of Purpose | |
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| The Character of Postmodern Theology | |
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| Ecclesial Authority | |
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| Theological Realism | |
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| Epistemic Pragmatism | |
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| Theology as Hermeneutic | |
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| Evangelical and Postmodern Theology | |
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| Theology and Publicness | |
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| Theology and the Critique of Modernity | |
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| Theology and Pluralism | |
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| Theology and Liberation | |
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| Theology, Language, and the Bible | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Theology: Frameworks and Visions | |
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| The Theological Nature of the Bible | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Redemptive History | |
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| Redemptive Revelation | |
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| Redemptive Theology | |
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| Structure and Content | |
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| Theological Narrative | |
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| Organic Unity | |
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| A Note on Method | |
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| The Redemptive Theologian | |
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| Interpretive Expectations | |
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| The Community | |
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| The Redemptive Matrix: A Suggestion | |
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| From Biblical Text to Theological Framework | |
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| Sola Scriptura | |
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| The Three Horizons of Redemptive Interpretation | |
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| The Textual Horizon | |
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| The Epochal Horizon | |
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| The Canonical Horizon | |
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| The Task of Mirroring | |
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| From Theological Framework to Theological Vision | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Theology and the Pieces of Culture | |
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| Theology and the Church | |
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| Theology and Popular Culture | |
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| Theology and the Academy | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |