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"But the 'text' that seems to be most in favor on the American landscape today is the sovereign self...In contrast to the self-serving and glamorous spiritualities, ours is a pedestrian way, literally pedestrian: we put one foot in front of the other as we follow Jesus. And in order to know who he is, where he is going, and how to walk in his steps, we reach for a book, the book, and read it."

"And now Luther has the astonishing continuation: 'Therefore even Christ Himself wrote not down His teaching, as Moses did his, but did it orally and gave no command to write it. The apostles, too, wrote little, and not all of them that.…But man’s need to write books is a great injury and it is a violation of the Spirit that the need hath compelled it and is not the way of the New Testament.…'” p.122