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My concern in what follows is to set forth, in outline, an understanding of the sources of religious authority that I take to stand in essential continuity with that of revisionary Protestantism. To do this I shall first develop the understanding of the sources of authority typical of classical Protestantism, or, if you will, the Protestantism of the Reformation. Against this background, then, I shall indicate the changes called for in this classical understanding by the typically revisionary Protestant approach and method, as well as by the results to which they may now be said to have led. Finally, I shall outline the understanding of the sources of religious authority that I myself take to be required of an adequate Christian theology today.

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Such, at any rate, is the essential position of revisionary Protestantism, and the conclusion argued for here is that this position, more than any other, belongs to the future of Christian theology as well as to its past.

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