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There are two goals of theology's explication and, correspondingly, two criteria for measuring its adequacy—namely, understandability and appropriateness. (Serious confusion is introduced in this early statement of my understanding when I say that "the sole [sic] norm of every legitimate theological assertion is the revealed word of God," etc., only to go on to speak of the gospel as "the second [siclsic!] norm of theological restatement.")

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