From: A K M Adam (akm-adam@nwu.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 01 1999 - 08:56:48 EST
<x-flowed>George,
>Sometimes, it would be refreshingly transparent if one were to say:
>"Of the two possible treatments of this Greek construction, I choose
>approach "a" because it is in keeping with my other doctrinal
>understandings.
I'm trying to carve out a niche in the debate over hermeneutics that
allows for just this option--but (as you no doubt well know) one can
hardly overestimate the inclination of biblical interpreters to think
that being right is insufficient--they must be conclusively,
exclusively, indubitably right.
I can't do that--it just seems to me that I disagree with enough
people who are smarter and wiser than I am, that I have to say, "I'm
convinced that I'm right--but Burton Mack (or Bill Mounce or W. D.
Davies) has very good reasons for thinking what he thinks. I'm just
not convinced."
Of course, scholars constantly observe your injunction--in reverse.
"Goolde upholds this position because it best fits his theology
[whereas *I*, implicitly, have reached my opposing conclusion based
on unfettered reason]."
Grace and peace be with you--may your sensibility catch on....
AKMA
-- Seabury-Western Theological Seminary akm-adam@nwu.eduTruth cannot impose itself except by virtue of its own truth, as it makes its entrance into the mind at once quietly and with power. Pope Paul VI, Dignitatis Humanae
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