relate it to the other stories (scientific, historical, political, religious or whatever) which confront him and compete for his attention and allegiance, and which claim a place as part of the current state of human knowledge of the world. He has, in this sense, a public accountability to address issues of general human concern, although he will do so from within the particularity of his tradition, seeking to show just how the Christian story construes them. Third, and supremely, insofar as all