Thursday, September 11, 2008

WHAT MUST THE COMMUNITY DO WITH THE SCRIPTURE'S DEMANDS?

Launching Quote
The meaning of biblical revelation is substantive, not adjectival, as Nicholas Wolterstorff has said... It is precisely this captivity to our own selves, to our own autonomous subjectivity, that God must break if we are to hear his Word aright otherwise we hear it not at all.
David F. Wells
"Christian Discipleship in a Postmodern World"
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Volume 51, No. 1, March 2008
pg. 26
Ponderings
  • When an interpreter claims illumination as one basis for an interpretation, by what means or criteria should the community evaluate the claim?
  • What role should the history of interpretation play in discovering the meaning of Scripture?
  • When Scripture makes a specific demand upon an individual person, what are the responsibilities of that person re: bringing the demand before the community and making it a demand of the community?
  • What responsibility does the community have re: the demands of Scripture upon individual persons?
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