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Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Onscript. This is Matt Lynch from Regent College.

This is part two of a two-part interview with Kevin Van Hooser.

If you haven't heard part one yet, go back and listen to that.

And we're jumping right into the conversation.

So it feels like you're dropping into the middle, which you are.

And we hope you enjoy the episode.

Thanks for listening.

Andrew has a question for you. Yeah, hi, Dr. Van Huser. Thank you so much for taking some time to

be with us, really enjoying the book. In the end of Chapter 5 is what I have a question about

for you. And I maybe, could be wrong on this, but I sense maybe even a little bit of tension in yourself as you're, you know, claiming to do this mere Christian humanytic that is, I guess, in a sense, universal.

And so I think about that by implication as global.

And so I was kind of wondering if you could explain a little bit more about your

thought process there at the end of that chapter, only using reformers to kind of describe

what this mere Christian hermeneutic looks like instead of maybe adding global voices that

might have helped substantiate your claim in a different way about how we read scripture.

Thanks for that. I think you're asking a question that I suspect many readers may be wondering,

you know, is my mere Christian hermeneutics a disguise for a particular tribe's way of reading?

I take that question seriously

because I'm claiming, as you say,

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