Along the lines of Heschel. I heard the following story. There was a student at JTS who went to one of the Rav's shiurim. He was blown away when the Rav explained a slight differnece in the text between two seemingly parrell passages in the Gemra. He was profoundly moved. He then went back and told this particular thought to R. Saul Liberman who proceeded to show him manuscript evidence that the entire premise- that there was a textual difference - was not borne out from the manuscripts thus undermining the whole speech and leaving the student rather disapointed.
Not to try and think that everything is a borrowing, but that sounds like something from Chaim Potok's The Chosen. I'll try and find the exact reference later but it describes when the Talmud Professor is visiting the Rebbe's house and he is giving a vort and the son of the professor says to his dad something like, "Tell him about the Yerushalmi", and his dad refuses to mention it. Alternatively, Chaim Potok might have heard the story while at JTS and incorporated it into his book.
If it wasn't clear from my comment, the Rebbe is giving the vort and making some hiddush and the professor refuses to essentially deflate the hiddush by citing the Yerushalmi.
Shalom Carmy has an excellent article about faith-based scholarship entitled 'A Room of our Own, but a Room with a View' (or vice versa; i can't remember) in an Orthodox Forum volume from 10-15 years ago. Moshe Bernstein has an article in the same volume arguing against Carmy. I remember Carmy's article resonating with me much more.
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