ABSTRACT
Julia Wedgwood seems to have believed that one effective model of Biblical interpretation requires the overhearing the dialogue between a sacred text and its cultural environs. Her strategy is to bring secular texts to bear upon the Biblical texts in such a way as to identify both the limits of faith and the new possibilities of faith. She finds Plutarch's views on modesty, conjugal love, animal rights, and immortality all to be conformable to Christian views on the same subjects. By demythologizing the sacred text, she makes it accessible to her contemporaries. Indeed, she is adept at finding ways in which the language of a received wisdom and the increasingly secular voices of her own age could interrogate one another. She spokes quietly and obscurely to an age which was haunted by the disintegration of its master narratives, but to her own satisfaction, she finds a strategy.
