Gunton on Epistemology

by Nov 8, 2015Books, Epistemology, Worldview

guntonAll interpretation is shaped by the frameworks of belief which we bring to it; the hope is that the text—or rather the Holy Spirit’s opening up of the text—will enable us both to use and to transcend those frameworks with ever new insights into the truth of the gospel.

—Colin Gunton, Christ and Creation

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