In a message dated 12/22/00 3:11:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
writes:
> i must say that the notion of an exegetical science that renders
> "objective" readings of sacred texts strikes me as a theological version of
> the kind of (newtonian) physics-envy that we find among some of the social
> "sciences" (pyschology, economics, sociology).
>
Nice irony. Newton is supposed to have done more experiments in alchemy than
in "science," and likes to explain what his scientific discoveries prove
about the perfection of God.
pat
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