of objectivity, but he also warns of the opposite extreme of an equally dangerous subjectivity. “The claim that truth is personal must be defined and qualified with care, for the major movement against objectivism today…is a form of knowing that reduces personal truth to private terms” (Palmer 54). Root demonstrates the battle between objectivity and subjectivity through the character of Mrs. Richards. Mrs. Richards became so opposed to the subjectivity of hermeneutics that she as a result veered to the opposite extreme. In light of these cues from Palmer, both Root and Brueggemann approach the Bible by seeking the middle grounds between informational objectivity and devotional individualistic subjectivity. Both find that middle ground of a
