In the preface to Moo’s new commentary on Colossians and Philemon, D. A. Carson makes a comment well worth pondering:

The vision of “objective scholarship” (a vain chimera) may actually be profane. God stands over against us; we do not stand in judgment of him. When God speaks to us through his Word, those who profess to know him must respond in an appropriate way, and that is certainly different from a stance in which the scholar projects an image of autonomous distance.

p. viii