Week 2 - Bevans Chap 2

I think that Bevans' point that the contextualization of theology needs to be realized as inevitable and embraced is a good place to stand. I think many Christians who have not been educated in critical studies of the Bible believe that there is only one right way of interpreting and applying the Bible. This in turn has led only to bring divisions and judgmentalism within the Church. I think its ironic that Christians then and still now divide over their views on the Bible when the Bible was made to unite us. I believe that this fact demonstrates that the Bible can be interpreted and applied differently in different cultural contexts because the text is not relative but elastic.