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Book Review: Trinity and Incarnation: The Faith of the Early Church

the hermeneutic principle of option or choice, since in their view the four ways of life were equally legitimate. If one text had more authority over another, it could be selected over the other. The married ritualists used this principle since marriage alone was the requirement for sacrifice and procreation. The classical theologians drew upon an assimilation theory which was used when all the texts were understood to hold equal authority and could be followed at different times, by different people, and involving different activities. Thus resulted the a&rama system as progressive stages in religious development. O. reveals a tension at the core of Hindu theological development: namely, between inclusivity and exclusivity on the one hand and between marriage and celibacy on the other. Again, hermeneutical tools were brought to the fray. Classifications were common strategies to assign a higher qualification in another system to a lower position in one's own. Since all theologies emerged from sectarian groups, a position could be rejected by referring it to a lower class. Moreover, what one would consider a scriptural injuction became a honorific tool for another, all indicating fluidity between the normative and the ideal. In the end O. makes a plea for a study of exegesis and hermeneutics of those we seek to understand before we bring our own strategies to interpretation. This has frequently been absent among historians of religions and theologians.