The ‘fitness’ of Scripture: Richard Chenevix Trench
Trench took the whole of Scripture and attempted to hold it together at once in his mind in order to step back and examine it in its allness, and to say something about its character.
Oxford Movement exegesis and sacramental ontology
In the world that Augustine and Aquinas inhabited, created things and human institutions were interconnected with heavenly realities, knit together in Christ in whom “all things hold together” (Col. 1:17). We seem not to inhabit this world.
The Oxford Movement’s sacramental interpretation of Scripture
For the Oxford Movement, the interpretation of the Bible is inextricably bound up with the doctrine of the Incarnation and the sacraments, so that to neglect a sacramental or allegorical interpretation is in some way to fail to appreciate, or even to deny, these doctrines.
Spiritual renewal, Scripture, and the Oxford Movement: The vision of God
Spiritual exegesis is part and parcel of the Oxford Movement's efforts to help the English church recover her capacity to see and to enjoy the kind of vision of God, which is compellingly attractive, which is the beginning and end of Christian life.
Defending the complex witness of Scripture: Henry Mansel (1820-71)
Scripture is united in Christ, but it is as diverse as the spaces and times in which it is read. Mansel’s goal was to retain Scripture’s unity while holding it open to every possible moment in time.
William Jones: Scripture makes the world speak
If children to ask William Jones what the sun is, he would tell them that it is a figure of Christ that teaches Christians to walk in the light.
The Anglican approach to Christian apologetics: Joseph Butler’s biblical cosmos
According to Bishop Butler, Scripture is God’s instrument to separate the sheep from the goats and to order both according to his intentions.
‘Interpret thine own work’: Figural reading with George Herbert and John Donne
Donne and Herbert show us what happens when we find ourselves “translated” by the Bible’s figures: our lives are transformed as they are translated into God’s mother tongue, mercy.