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Survey question 12--Hermeneutical principles:
Context 28.9% 45% 0.0% 0%
"It's God's
Word" 34.2% 5% 0.0% 0%
Survey question 14--Work required of students:
Outlines 23.7% 40% 0.0% 0%
Survey question 16.a.--Interaction with other
theological disciplines:
At least an
openness to
integration 36.9% 40% 57.2% 60%
Two data lines from table 40 document the most
important difference between 'Lloyd-Jones'+'Stewart
lecturers' and 'Rahner'+'Tillich lecturers' (question
10:Bible and 9:Bible)."2- 2 An overwhelming majority of
the 'Lloyd-Jones'+'Stewart lecturers' believe preaching
must be true to the Bible, while less than half the
'Rahner'+'Tillich lecturers' stated that axiom (question
9). Similarly, four of five 'Llovd-Jones'+'Stewart
lecturers' include in their lectures content relating to
the Bible, while only half the 'Rahner'+'Tillich
lecturers' do (10).
A third data line points in the same direction,
although with less dramatic statistics. The lecturers
who follow Lloyd-Jones and Stewart see Biblical material
as a primary component of preaching content (7). While
the 'Rahner lecturers' position on this question is not
far from that of 'Lloyd-Jones'+'Stewart lecturers', none
of the 'Tillich lecturers' defined preaching content in
terms of the Bible.
Thus, responses to these questions document
different emphases in answer to a single question: "From