Comments on: Reading the Scriptures in Context http://nathaniel.themccallums.org/2008/02/12/reading-the-scriptures-in-context/ echo $life | grep meaning > /dev/world Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:59:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Fr. Dcn. Raphael http://nathaniel.themccallums.org/2008/02/12/reading-the-scriptures-in-context/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Fr. Dcn. Raphael Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:28:23 +0000 http://nathaniel.themccallums.org/2008/02/12/reading-the-scriptures-in-context/#comment-29 Forgive me, but I thought your post was about a "Scritpure Reading Contest." Forgive me, but I thought your post was about a “Scritpure Reading Contest.”

]]> By: Selena http://nathaniel.themccallums.org/2008/02/12/reading-the-scriptures-in-context/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Selena Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:49:53 +0000 http://nathaniel.themccallums.org/2008/02/12/reading-the-scriptures-in-context/#comment-27 This was a very useful post to me. I studied communications for a while and was introduced to the "medium is the message" concept but I never thought to apply it to Sola Scriptura. How illuminating to read about this! I'd like to make a point - perhaps applying a bit of phenomenology to the discussion!... History and sociology and authority aside, I personally love study bibles because it's really fun to read them. It encourages me to read the Bible. I'd hate for them to be wrong but it's not as if I read them uncritically. But I agree that they remove the Scriptures (somewhat) from the context of the life of the Church. They potentially also simplify things down to much less than they should be. Selena This was a very useful post to me. I studied communications for a while and was introduced to the “medium is the message” concept but I never thought to apply it to Sola Scriptura. How illuminating to read about this!

I’d like to make a point - perhaps applying a bit of phenomenology to the discussion!… History and sociology and authority aside, I personally love study bibles because it’s really fun to read them. It encourages me to read the Bible. I’d hate for them to be wrong but it’s not as if I read them uncritically.

But I agree that they remove the Scriptures (somewhat) from the context of the life of the Church. They potentially also simplify things down to much less than they should be.

Selena

]]> By: nathaniel http://nathaniel.themccallums.org/2008/02/12/reading-the-scriptures-in-context/comment-page-1/#comment-26 nathaniel Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:07:31 +0000 http://nathaniel.themccallums.org/2008/02/12/reading-the-scriptures-in-context/#comment-26 Richard, My point was NOT that these readers are "lazy," nor that the commentary is not as inspired as the Scriptures themselves (if they reflect the canon of faith, they clearly are). My point is that the medium has a tendency to remove the Scriptures from their context: the life of the Church. Richard,

My point was NOT that these readers are “lazy,” nor that the commentary is not as inspired as the Scriptures themselves (if they reflect the canon of faith, they clearly are). My point is that the medium has a tendency to remove the Scriptures from their context: the life of the Church.

]]> By: Richard http://nathaniel.themccallums.org/2008/02/12/reading-the-scriptures-in-context/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Richard Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:19:37 +0000 http://nathaniel.themccallums.org/2008/02/12/reading-the-scriptures-in-context/#comment-25 Nathaniel, Regarding the use of Study Bibles in lieu of wider materials, very well said! While I don't want to debate the issue of authority here, it is a travesty for Protestants as well who use the notes in any study Bible or any particular commentary to tell them the meaning of Scripture. Commentaries in any form may help us, but the very meaning of sola scriptura means that Scripture is the authority. As you have well-pointed out, lazy readers can too easily assign more authority than due to these notes. Nathaniel,

Regarding the use of Study Bibles in lieu of wider materials, very well said! While I don’t want to debate the issue of authority here, it is a travesty for Protestants as well who use the notes in any study Bible or any particular commentary to tell them the meaning of Scripture. Commentaries in any form may help us, but the very meaning of sola scriptura means that Scripture is the authority. As you have well-pointed out, lazy readers can too easily assign more authority than due to these notes.

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