and seek to understand the Bible or sit in judgment of it on the basis of our own preexisting criteria. I do not direct this question only to liberal theologians; conservative theologians are no less at risk of unwittingly acting in this way. During the past several decades, a new outlook has arisen to challenge the optimism of Enlightenment modernism. A conglomeration of different attitudes displaying a common skepticism about the key aspects of Enlightenment thought,