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The dangers of genealogical narratives in theology (not necessarily saying they can't have their place, but it must be subordinate):
1) They aren't providential or figural. They assume an immanent, linear causality without reference to God's activity or Scriptural perspective
1) They aren't providential or figural. They assume an immanent, linear causality without reference to God's activity or Scriptural perspective
2) They often implicitly suggest that the real acting subject of history is not the Church/Israel, but esoteric lineages of intellectuals
3) They are often narratives of victimhood - "look what modernity did to the poor Church" - rather than narratives of repentance which suggest the Church might bear any responsibility
In other words, genealogies of the secular often are themselves "secular" in their narrative assumptions.
