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16 ssss1 In our post-Kantian age, I do accept that every experience entails interpretation. However, I do think the sense of the spiritual needs to be experienced in ways that do not allow the filters of reductionist materialism to obscure the true nature of experience. Without romanticizing children, I do think that often children can see and know things in ways that adults could see and know, but fail to do so because a crude empiricism dominates the adult realm of knowing. I am grateful for the clarifying help of my colleagues Joyce Mercer and James Farwell on this point.

17 ssss1 Wisdom tradition is in quotation marks because I recognize it is not really a tradition. It is Stuart Weeks who has in a variety of places argued against the distinct wisdom tradition. Instead he sees it as a much more fluid movement where the literature is “intended more to entertain and provoke than deliberately to persuade its readers to adopt any particular understanding of the world.” Stuart Weeks, “Wisdom in the Old Testament,” in, Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Wisdom in the Bible, the Church and the Contemporary World, ed. Stephen Barton (Edinburgh: T&T Clark 1999), 29.