I am always impressed when an academic says they DON'T know something.  I am always impressed when a leader of the church admits there is something they don't understand.  I have encountered secular professors who would literally make up a story on the spot and pass it off as fact before they admitted what they didn't know: once I made sport of a professor and asked the same question three times in six weeks, and got three different answers.

I said all that to say this:

I am glad that David Watson teaches at the seminary where I study.

Read this.  You'll be glad you did.