While we're at it.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, October, 2005 by Neuhaus, Richard

* It was axiomatic for the early Fathers of the Church that "Scripture interprets Scripture." It was further understood that Christ is the Logos who speaks and is spoken of in all the words (logoi) of Scripture. This was a theme addressed by our Robert Louis Wilken in a lecture to the Catholic bishops before their June meeting in Chicago. In the last hundred years and more, much biblical scholarship has been preoccupied with an antiquarian search for the "original meaning" of texts divorced from the living voice of Scripture. Robert Jenson takes up these questions in a recent issue of Pro Ecclesia: "Nor do such observations impose alien doctrine on the Old Testament. Gerhard yon Rad's observation, that it was not a succession of words that came to the succession of...

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