[October 1999 journal entry]
The canon of Jewish scripture and the canon of Christian scripture have remained open and debatable since my first serious introduction to the ‘canon question’ at the beginning of my graduate studies (1974). Since then what I think and what I write re spirituality and ethics have been altered by the implications of the irresolvable status of the ‘canon question’. My angle for considering the collections of Jewish scripture and Christian scripture as ‘open’ is a ‘from below’ angle (e.g., the story/play about the ‘scrapheap’ Job and the Ecclesiastes essay as my entering/exiting points). I see several competing theologies in Jewish scripture and Christian scripture.
The canon of Jewish scripture and the canon of Christian scripture have remained open and debatable since my first serious introduction to the ‘canon question’ at the beginning of my graduate studies (1974). Since then what I think and what I write re spirituality and ethics have been altered by the implications of the irresolvable status of the ‘canon question’. My angle for considering the collections of Jewish scripture and Christian scripture as ‘open’ is a ‘from below’ angle (e.g., the story/play about the ‘scrapheap’ Job and the Ecclesiastes essay as my entering/exiting points). I see several competing theologies in Jewish scripture and Christian scripture.
