In July of this year, the General Synod voted to ‘hear’ the Kairos II Palestine document as a ‘cry’ of their Palestinian Christian brothers and sisters. Kairos II makes at least one that is simply, completely wrong, and it is not a minor one. Defenders of Kairos II have spent considerable energy correcting the formulations of its critics. The defence runs: Kairos II is prophetic contextual theology, and therefore carries authority; but Kairos II is not a theological or exegetical document, and therefore should not be subjected to theological or exegetical criticism. How can Kairos II be prophetic theology when it speaks, and not theology when it is examined?