does not speak,” is simply another one of these prejudices, not far from the top either. That this obvious fact escaped his own notice is a sign of the great power of Enlightenment prejudices in academic practice. In his “Addendum,” written after the seminar on the Erasmus Lecture, Brown sees himself as untouched by philosophical prejudices. Already in the seminar discussion, he had deflected Cardinal Ratzinger’s philosophical critique of Bultmann by claiming he himself, like many in the Anglo-Saxon