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‘As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so the Son of Man will be lifted up’ John 3:15 Typological interpretation is one of the best-known but least understood features of scriptural interpretation in the New Testament. John 3:15 is a great example of it from the Prayer Book Communion reading for Trinity Sunday…
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In November last year I went on one of the regional shared conversations about human sexuality that are part of the Church of England’s strategy for reflecting on the issues of same-sex marriage and Christian sexual ethics. It was a privilege to attend, especially to be able to hear people’s very personal stories. I came…
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I’ve just received several copies of the latest issue of Churchman with an article I wrote about biblical interpretation which is influenced by American literary pragmatists – blokes like Stanley Fish and Richard Rorty. They argue that there’s no such thing as ‘objective’ interpretation of texts, simply different ‘uses’ of texts within specific interpretive communities.…
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This week I’m still thinking (and trying to write) about the interpretation of Scripture in the letters of Ignatius of Antioch. Now I’m looking at Ignatius’ assumed narrative of history and how that informs his understanding of what Scripture means. In Magnesians 8:1-2, Ignatius claims that the prophets of Israel’s past ‘lived according to Jesus…
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This week I’ve been thinking (and trying to write) about the interpretation of Scripture in the letters of Ignatius of Antioch. Ignatius’ seeming ignorance of Scripture is well-known. His opponents once came to him and said, “you keep saying ‘as it is written’, but you never tell us where ‘it is written’! If we can’t…
Benjamin Sargent 