Thursday, June 16, 2005
Perhaps I am being nostalgic for the 60s, but I find much more noble and honest existentialism's avowal of meaninglessness followed by despair than postmodernism's embrace of meaninglessness, followed by play and ideological manipulation of the text.
-- from Tremper Longman III, "Literary Approaches and Interpretation" in A Guide to Old Testament Theology and Exegesis