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I have long reasoned in the matter of prolegomena that my understanding of theology is as appropriate as it is credible. Why? Because Christian faith itself claims to be worthy of belief, or true, for the same reason, in general, that any other truth claim is a valid claim -- namely, because common human experience and reason somehow support it as they do not support its contraries. The question I want to ask is whether Gerrish doesn't reason in very much the same way in arguing for -- in effect, the appropriateness of -- his "revised model of dogmatics" (Saving Faith: 73 f.) -- even if (unfortunately, by my standards!) he is nothing like as clear about the need for his model to be credible as well as appropriate.

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