Sanctifying Interpretation by Chris Green

Author:Chris Green [Green, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Publisher: CPT Press
Published: 2015-08-06T16:00:00+00:00

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Scripture as Divine and Deifying Foolishness

Introduction

I have already argued that the crucial matter is not that we read Scripture but how we read it.[375] We have to learn ‘to read and reread for the sake of God and the Kingdom of God’,[376] engaging the biblical texts in ways that trouble and thwart us into participation with Christ in the divine life, into the wisdom God is and gives. We have to read Scripture so that we are made wise with God’s own wisdom,[377] transformed as Christ’s co-sanctified co-sanctifiers, mediators with him of God’s divine-human beauty.

Despite what we might wish, the reading of Scripture, instead of ending or saving us from the discerning process, returns us to it, again and again, in always deepening and widening ways.[378] By God’s grace, the shared work of faithful interpretation over time effects in us, corporately and individually, an increased capacity for and readiness to bear with others in their weaknesses, sins, and immaturity. Held in that process, we find that we are being taken up into our calling, being drawn along toward God, one another, and all things in Christ by the Spirit. In the agonies of interpretation – whether in preaching, study, prayer, or meditation – we are made apt for the work of the Spirit who impels us toward ever-deepening communion and ever-widening collaboration with God in mediating Christ’s divine-human holiness to the rest of creation. Struggling to read Scripture faithfully, we find ourselves doing exactly what we are made to do.

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