At 8:25 PM +0000 11/3/07, firestorm wrote:
If anything is destroyed in a
deconstructive reading, it is not the text, but the claim to unequivocal
domination of one mode of signifying over another. A

Correct. And for some, that includes the elucidations of the House of Justice, the Central Figures of the Faith and Shoghi Effendi.

Deconstructionism as a technique has value; but to adopt the philosophy that *no* interpretation should be privileged over any other is problematical for a member of the Baha'i Faith.

Don C

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