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4. So far as I am able to tell, Lancaster's whole "narrative approach" is something of a red herring. Whether or not the Bible is to be construed as narrative, or a narrative (and there are, of course, the best of historical\- and literary-critical reasons for _not_ so construing _it\!_), the "reformist feminist theology" for which she argues, both in general and with particular reference to the authority of scripture, can be \-\- and has been\! -- adequately defended \-\- e.g., by Pamela Dickey Young. Far from making for a more adequate such defense, as she in effect claims, her narrative approach really saddles her with defending positions that are irrelevant to the main thing she seeks to establish. (An interesting confirmation of this is her statement, "In their own ways and without explicitly using this terminology, both Bultmann and Frei identified the way in which the Bible exercises its authority appropriately, for Bultmann when it discloses to us authentic human existence in the light of God's love and for Frei when it portrays for us a world in which God is present through Jesus Christ" \[10, n. 7.\].)