In the Christian religion Jesus Christ is the definitive revelation of God to human beings. Scripture is not revelation but one important way whereby the community has access to the primordial revelation. Christian revelation is a person, not a book. Every generation must interpret the ancient formula in its own thought categories. One has to ask what the formula was trying to express within its own historical context and then rethink this.
Theology uses the language of the culture in which it was created.
Formulations are culturally conditioned and need reinterpretation. Religion to some extent must be reasonable. The Development of Doctrine There is general agreement that even if there is some initial given or basic revelation, nevertheless there is doctrinal development or theological advance as that given is continually being reformulated and expressed anew in words. There is considerable disagreement about the nature of such development. Development necessitates some kind of continuity.