Gregory labeled this approach physiologein, that is, treating things solely in a “scientific way.” Benedict sees this transformation of mysteries into “things” occurring in modern biblical scholarship: “Is there not too much physiologein in our exegesis and our modern way of dealing with Scripture? Are we not in fact treating it as we treat matter in the laboratory … [as] a dead thing that we assemble and disassemble at our pleasure?”13 Benedict’s concern raises a basic question concerning method.