Christianity and the Symbolic Status of the Man, and Not the Functional Authority

Anand Soad: How on earth do we make the text and its cultural hinterland sufficiently strange that we allow it to be eard above the frims of reference that we bring to it? Anand soad: The difficulty is that christianity, being an escatological religion, hasa has a ready made set of concepts to appeal to in order that these kind of retrospective claims can be made withot sufficient interrogation. Doctrines like sala scripture are primarily about the reform of the methodlogical disconfirmation that holds in check the capacity of the church to take scripture in ways that scripture won't tolerate.