Biblical theology’s focus on revelation as a historical activity underlines the dynamic, rather than static, character of revealed truth. John Murray speaks of the “tendency to abstraction” on the part of systematic theology, the tendency to historicize, to arrive at “timeless” formulations in the sense of topically oriented universals. This danger becomes even more real [...]

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Systematic theology is not simply a coherent arrangement of supracultural universals. it is a compilation of the Western white history of dogma. And that history, in the process of compilation, has lost its missiological thrust.
The effect of this process on the Western churches is similarly destructive of missions. Seeing theology as an essentializing science and [...]

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