culture commonly holds faith and reason to be incompatible. To speak of a “science of faith” seems to be a contradiction. Does this mean that theology, which seeks the intellectus fidei, cannot be called a science? The same apparent dilemma arises in exegesis: if the exegete is a believer, we are told that he lets himself be influenced by his beliefs and does not engage in scientific work. If he wants to be scientific, he cannot take his faith into account, because to do the contrary would not respect