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    <body><![CDATA[Another challenging book from the egalitarian perspective. Exhaustive (and exhausting!). Articulates a redemptive-movement hermeneutic that is worth consideration, but is not without problems and raises a considerable amount of questions.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Webb's redemptive movement hermeneutic is compelling and well thought out.]]></body>
    
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