ABSTRACT

The location of type three within the triangle is determined by how they handle each of the issues they share with the other two types. In other words, how they negotiate the problem of the reader and the text by way of their orientation from the priority of divine agency. The humanness of the text became a "problem" to surmount on the way to hearing the divine Word and the search for certainty, likewise, in regard to the authority of Scripture shifted from the divine agency that formerly underwrote it to some unique qualities it possessed in its humanness. The detriments of type three can be seen from this standpoint, as in the other two types, as the abstraction of its strengths from the balance and accountability of the issues which the other two types represent to it. Thus type three shares the potential problem of type two in their possible abstraction from the accountability provided by the text.