This was the period of «social doctrine» according to Leo XIII, Pius XL and Pius XII, all of it natural - law based: the Magisterium of the Pope provided the
only legitimate interpretation.
Since the publication of his Biblical Theology in Crisis in 1970, Brevard Childs (recently retired from Yale Divinity School) has pursued a single - minded interpretive agenda with passion and imagination: that
the legitimate interpretation of the Bible is as the scripture of the church.
And if this is
a legitimate interpretation of the meaning of such statements, then there seems to be no irresolvable conflict between Hartshorne's metaphysical God and Karl Barth's triune God who is only known through his self - disclosure to the world through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.
This would seem to be
a legitimate interpretation of Bultmann's argument.
Both types believe that their views of the scripture, creation, and / or history are the only
legitimate interpretations and condemn anyone who disagrees with them and their preferred «experts.»