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Bart Ehrman writes:

>    Larry,  I *think* I know what you *mean*.
> 
> :-) Bart
> 
> P.S. (But I stand by my claim that you're still caricaturing the people
> you're taking on!  Fish and co. have a *lot* to teach us unreconstructed
> modernists)

Bart,
I certainly *intend* no caricature, but state what I have formed as 
understandings of what thorough-going postmodernist theorists say, 
and have been assured in my understandings by specialists, such as my 
colleague Kevin VanHoozer, et alia.  But it's still possible that my 
understanding is *incorrect*, or only partially (i.e., "more or 
less") correct.
And, for what it's worth, pa-leese don't number me among 
"unreconsructed modernists"--never have been one, couldn't be one.  
Actually, both the latter and radical "postmodernists" seem to me to 
share a common anthropo-centric hubris, though manifesting itself in 
varying ways.  I have deeply held epistemological and theological 
bases for rejecting both positions as untenable--though, to be sure, 
learning much from both (and other) positions.  As is so often the 
case, in my view, rejecting a position doesn't mean it's worthless, 
just inadequate as a resting place or premise.  Many of the positions 
I'd reject (in TC work, for example, radical eclecticism such as 
advocated by Kilpatrick & my friend Keith Elliott) I deem very 
instructive in their respective subject matters--I just find reasons 
to go on to some other position.
As we seem to be winding down this set-to, my thanks for the patience 
of the TC list in this by-path into epistemology, etc.
Larry Hurtado
 
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