[October 1999 journal entry]
Something distinctive about the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm is revealed when expressions of this paradigm – increasingly so toward the evangelical/fundamentalist end of the theological spectrum -- treat dissimilar fragments in Jewish scripture and Christian scripture as a unified collection of writings. For example, the J/E/P/D nuances for ‘God’ are made to read/function as a single flattened theology in the Torah and throughout the rest of Jewish scripture and Christian scripture. The story/play about the ‘scrapheap’ Job and the Ecclesiastes essay are forced into conformity with the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm. Tensions within the first Christian writings are molded into a closed collection and treated as the reflection of a single theology.
Something distinctive about the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm is revealed when expressions of this paradigm – increasingly so toward the evangelical/fundamentalist end of the theological spectrum -- treat dissimilar fragments in Jewish scripture and Christian scripture as a unified collection of writings. For example, the J/E/P/D nuances for ‘God’ are made to read/function as a single flattened theology in the Torah and throughout the rest of Jewish scripture and Christian scripture. The story/play about the ‘scrapheap’ Job and the Ecclesiastes essay are forced into conformity with the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm. Tensions within the first Christian writings are molded into a closed collection and treated as the reflection of a single theology.
