The most challenging approach would be to accept these multiple images as a gift, scrutinizing their diversity and probing their meaning, purpose and function, and above all, celebrating the gift. (259)
He does not include scrutinizing their intellectual honesty, or faithfulness to the texts. One may, of course, discard the texts as norms for faith. At the same time, however, one abandons all pretense to be working within the tradition of historic Christianity but is now dealing with a different religion.