Russell T. McCutcheon

A Clash of Ideologies

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“'Theory is like a snowblower,' I was once told: 'it helps to move the stuff around'--for too long this view has governed our field, presuming that something called meaning predates our tools. A Clash of Ideologies argues for the alternative: theories make the material significant and the method each theory drives comes with costs. If Biblical Studies is to be part of the Human Sciences then this is precisely the message its practitioners need to hear.”