Abstract
All of this is wisely noted, though also somewhat ill-attuned to contemporary discomfort with the scholastic mind - a disconnect that resides in the revolution wrought by historical criticism, which drew the curtain definitively on scholastic efforts to build theological systems from scriptural texts as plane geometry is built from the postulates of Euclid, Muller and van Asselt both demonstrate an appreciation of scholastic texts that is admirably deep and impressively wide, though their much learning occasionally makes them (ever so slightly) mad. AJister Chapman points to the promise offered by Skinner's approach in appreciating the place of belief hi societies where, as in undeniably secular Britain of the last half-century, religion has become a marginal, minority component of the culture, subjected to the "secular overreach" of interpretive elites too readily inclined toward the default settings of social scientific reductionism and linguistic indeterminism.
