Getting to Know the Early Writers and Commentators in Exegesis and Theology

The author says he's been wary of the word retrieval in some ways. He thinks it can make accessing historical resources sound like a sufficient undertaking. The goal of systematic theology itself is exogetical, at least in the broadest sense: to lead out the meaning of the text that's there in scripture,. So i think there are ways that we can try to have the text as both source and an guard rail for what we talk about.