This type of submission requires submitting ourselves to two things: the biblical text and tradition, in that order. By submitting to the text—all of it and not just the preferred parts—we are challenging the assumed ascendancy of the subjective and experiential. The Jesus of subjective experience will never rise to the level of the full complexity of the Jesus of Scripture. By submitting to tradition, we are challenging the widely held assumption of the ultimacy of our time. Americans in general