ENI — “What I believe we need for a renewed theological grasp of scripture, is the recognition that scripture is something heard in the event where the community affirms its identity and seeks its renewal,” the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said in Toronto in April.
Williams lamented what he called a “rootlessness” in the Anglican approach to scripture. He said: “We've lost quite a bit of what was once a rather good Anglican practice of reading the Bible in the tradition of interpretation.”
He said that scriptural texts should neither be isolated from their context, nor seen as being of only limited relevance because of the prevalent cultural understanding at the time they were written. Williams added: “We read the Bible less in worship. We understand and know it less.”
