“Most people, when they begin to read the Bible, expect to
learn facts. Fundamentalist Christians read Genesis to learn facts about the
creation of the world. And even if one grows beyond a literal interpretation of
the Bible, one may still hope for facts about God. Rather it is entering into
conversation with God. What matters is not so much the accuracy of the text as
the fidelity of the speaker, who transforms us by engaging us in conversation.
Gabriel Josipovici (in The Book of God: A Response to the Bible)
says ‘We have to trust the book itself
and see where it will take us...The Bible guides us if we will only let it,
towards the answers it contains but can only show, not tell.’ One surrenders to
the narrative, and it carries us onwards, towards a revelation that is always
somehow in the future, yet to be fully given.”
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE, O.P. “The World Shall Come to Walsingham”, in Sacred Space: House of God, Gate of Heaven, ed. John North and
Philip North, Continuum Books
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