Rowan Williams gave a lecture on this topic in Canada recently, link to full text below. But I want to quote once section in particular speaking about scripture...
"... a written text requires re-reading; it is never read for the last time, and it continuously generates new events of interpretation. It is fruitful of renewed communication in a way that the spoken word alone cannot be. So to identify a written text as sacred is to claim that the continuous possibility of re-reading, the impossibility of reading for the last time, is a continuous openness to the intention of God to communicate".
http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/sermons_speeches/070416.htm
Warning, it's pretty dense stuff :-)
2 comments:
It's ironic really. I have to read most of what Rowan Williams writes at least three times before I fully understand it!!!
you should read the whole article - the bit I quoted was the easy section! it was a talk to theology students so fairs fair...
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