thought, word, and deed should make Christians wary of any presumptions about humans being fully or substantially present to themselves. Short of the consummation of God’s reign, we shall not know as fully as we are known by God. If, therefore, we are to reconstitute notions of authorial intention, we will have to do so in ways that do not presume that via an analysis of a text we can climb inside an author’s head and share with the author an immediate and unfettered access to the author’s intentions.