teaching of the Church in parentheses—such is the rule of the exegetes—far from starting their explanations with the immutable contents of traditional faith in their explanations (as simple logic would require), they in fact start with the ideology of the modern world posed as an a priori and as the sole criterion of faith. De fidei is that which suits the needs of our times; our new fidelity is to these needs alone. What Christian ears are made to hear is not the hard truth of the eternal Word,