Who is in the best position to lead us to the promised land of right reading, to use the Bible to illumine our pathway through territories known and unknown? Who holds the keys to the kingdom of biblical interpretation? There are many academic pretenders to the theological throne. My own view is that theological interpretation of Scripture—reading the Bible in the church to hear God—is a joint project. We need all the theological disciplines working together in order to think and live biblically. Left to its own devices, each single discipline falls short of cultivating the godly wisdom that
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