The investigation of the modern use of a term such as ‘prophet’ is more than simply an exercise in language analysis; for Jew and Christian, it forms part of the larger quest for the locus of authoritative moral and religious utterance in our time.

Bible and biology agree: Human beings cast the biggest shadow over the future of nature. At the end of the millennium we face a choice: We can continue to overuse and exploit our ecosphere or we can exercise tender “dominion” in the world, as God's agents here.

The Bible helps us discern our vocation. Biblical spirituality, in turn, helps us discern God's inner promptings.

The claims of Daniel upon our world will be kept freshest if we see in the text paradigms of a consistently renewed experience of the triumph of God's redeeming power over death and corruption.

A text is truly interpreted when both text and interpretation are understood in an analogical relationship to a larger reality.