Original sentence: Fretheim’s book and the questions it raises are legitimate points of discussion for the religious community today, and this work deserves our attention.On the contrary, his work fulfills an important role in the church, and the issues he raised in 1984 are still relevant today.Scholarship has only recently begun to catch up with him, and most churches are still far from conversant with his ideas.These are serious critiques, and they go to the heart of the book, but they are not intended to present Fretheim’s work in a negative light