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Faith Has Its Reasons, 463.

      23. Berkhof, Systematic Theology, 21. It is important to note here that Berkhof points back to his own translation of Dictaten Dogmatiek, de Deo I, 77.

      24. Vanden Heuvel et al., Root Cause Analysis Handbook, xix.

      25. Vanden Heuvel et al., Root Cause Analysis Handbook, 13.

      26. Bauer, Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity, xxii–xxiii. Bauer would reverse the order in his work, ultimately suggesting that heresy preceded orthodoxy when it came to Christianity.

      27. Bauer, Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity, xxv. While Bauer found the New Testament writings to be “too unproductive and too much disputed” to serve as a starting point, it is interesting that in his concluding chapter he makes use of select passages from Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians (all texts that will be used to establish a SPAC) in his research. He additionally makes use of 1 Timothy, Colossians, and 1 Peter. See pp. 233–35.

      28. Dunn, Christianity in the Making, 6. Later in this same volume Dunn would make the argument that the resurrection event was crucial in defining how the earliest believers understood Jesus as a person and in God’s involvement with humanity. In 23.4a he points to Rom 1:4 and 1 Cor 15:20–23 as the beginning of a new era with respect to God’s dealing with humanity, and goes on to affirm in 23.4c how he understands Paul as holding the belief that sonship for Jesus was not of an adoptionistic nature, rather this was a pointer to the exaltation of Jesus.

      29. Dunn, Christianity in the Making, 15–16.