Scriptural Reading Plan
The Bible, the Church teaches, is an anthology, a library of different books, whose key of interpretation is Jesus Christ.
This Christian understanding of interpretation is somewhat post-post-modern, because the original or intended interpretation of the book or text is not always how we best understand it.
We do not disregard the historical, however; rather, we read the historical anew through the lens of Christ.
This Christian understanding of interpretation is somewhat post-post-modern, because the original or intended interpretation of the book or text is not always how we best understand it.
We do not disregard the historical, however; rather, we read the historical anew through the lens of Christ.
Stage 1
1. C. S. Lewis’s “Is Theology Poetry?” 2. Luke Timothy Johnson’s The Real Jesus Stage 2
1. Richard Bauckham’s and J. T. Pennington’s Reading the Gospels Wisely 2. Richard Bauckham’s Jesus and the Eyewitnesses Stage 3
1. Brant Pitre’s Case for Jesus 2. N. T. Wright’s Paul Stage 4
1. Brant Pitre’s Catholic Introduction to the Bible: Old Testament 2. Joseph Ratzinger’s In the Beginning… Stage 5
1. Timothy Michael Law’s When God Spoke Greek 2. N. T. Wright’s New Testament and its World |