FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING
AN ARCHBISHOP LOOKS AT THE BIBLE
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FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING
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Robert Runcie
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Archbishop Robert Runcie engagingly announces that ‘Archbishops have all too little time for study’, but this essay that was originally given as his Inaugural Address given at the Vacation Term for Biblical Study at the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford belies that modest start. Runcie addresses the danger of fundamentalism as a barrier to the effective communication of biblical knowledge: the belief that either the Bible is absolute truth, or it is vacuous nonsense. The Bible is not a store of justification for any opinion we have, it is a resource for which understanding can give us enlightenment. Understanding does not require passivity or silence, but discourse, listening and discrimination. The greatest practitioners of biblical scholarship have been motivated by a profound sense that the Bible speaks to them and by their need to discern more exactly the substance of that message. This essay enjoins us to seek the truth with precision and sobriety, fortifying us against the increasingly-prevalent extravagant fundamentalism and glib over-simplification in reading the Bible. Subtelty, balance and maturity of understanding are at the heart of preparation for contemplative prayer.
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