Revelation and Authority: Author’s Response

I find Fleischacker’s discussion of verbal content a very useful corrective to my book. (The Catholic theologian Matthew Levering from the University of St. Mary at the Lake suggested a similar reworking of my thesis in remarks at the Society for Biblical Literature this past November; that two such careful thinkers independently produced similar critiques is significant.) I worked hard to make my book readable not only to members of the academic field in which I was trained but to theologians and philosophers of religion (among other audiences), so that they would be able to pick up the thread of my argument, repair it, and take it further. The critical responses from Fleischacker and Levering are precisely what I was hoping for, and it is a pleasure to thank them.

Ken Koltun-Fromm’s retrieval of Geiger is important for understanding Geiger in this vein.