also Philocalia 6. For description of Origen’s view of Scripture, see Henri
de Lubac, History and Spirit: The Understanding of Scripture According to
Origen (San Francisco: Ignatius, 2007), Peter W. Martens, Origen and
Scripture: The Contours of the Exegetical Life (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2012), and John David Dawson, Christian Figural Reading and the
Fashioning of Identity (Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 2001).
- See Stephen E. Fowl and L. Gregory Jones, Reading in Communion:
Scripture and Ethics in Christian Life (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991),
70–71.
- Or “to perform the symphony” of God. See de Lubac, History and Spirit ,
193.
- Origen, Matthew Vol. 2 (fragment) , n.p.
- I am not deciding for Origen’s hermeneutic in its entirety. But these core
convictions arising out of the analogies seem to me right and necessary.
- Dawson, Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity , 137. In
St. Paul’s words, “whatever was written in former days was written for our
instruction” (Rom. 15:4).
- J. Todd Billings, The Word of God for the People of God: An Entryway to the
Theological Interpretation of Scripture (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010),
17.
- See de Lubac, History and Spirit, 346.
- See Sandra M. Schneiders, IHM, “Biblical Spirituality: Text and
Transformation,” in The Bible and Spirituality: Exploratory Essays in
Reading Scripture Spiritually , ed. Andrew T. Lincoln, J. Gordon
McConville, and Lloyd K. Pietersen (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2013),
128–150 (135).
- Kevin J. Vanhoozer, “Ascending the Mountain, Singing the Rock: Biblical
Interpretation Earthed, Typed, and Transfi gured,” in Heaven on Earth:
Theological Interpretation in Ecumenical Dialogue, ed. Hans Boersma and
Matthew Levering (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), 223.
- Rowan Williams, “Augustine and the Psalms,” Interpretation 58.1
(January 2004), 17–27 (18). So long as we dwell with the scriptures
prayerfully, then the transformation made possible in the recitation of the
Psalms is possible in all other kinds of reading, including devotional medi-
tation and scholarly analysis.
- Williams, “Augustine and the Psalms,” 27.
- All Scripture quotations are taken from NRSV.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar , Glory of the Lord Vol. 1: Seeing the Form (San
Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1982), 99–100.
- Robert W. Jenson, Systematic Theology Vol. 1 (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1997), 236.
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