Before explicating the possibility of a non-textualist strategy let me address Philipse's arguments in favour of textualism as appropriate method in theology. Some of these arguments appeal to the religious traditions, and thus suggest that a believer qua believer (rather than qua historian) has to be originalist.

The danger comes when a Gamma Male is taken by surprise and shunted into a position of LEADERSHIP (e.g. if he is tall) and has to pretend to be an Alpha.

Because I read in a beauty magazine (when I was nineteen) that it helps un-bloat pre-menstrual women, I drink a cup of disgusting green tea.

Well, that got our attention. Ashley put down her chopsticks and paused in midchew.