This essay evaluates how the claims for the clarity of Scripture have been presented in Protestant hermeneutics. The author is interested in the various characterizations of perspicuity by Protestants and the means employed in its defence, and the value of an affirmation of claritas Scripturae.

How should Hans Frei’s approach to Christological truth claims be appreciated? Callahan gives a critical discussion of Frei's Christology in the light of what he sees as puzzling elements, such as what Frei sees as fictive or "novel-like characteristics" of the Gospels.