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.

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

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.