"We have so much to say about the Bible that we are not prepared to hear what the Bible has to say about us." --Abraham Heschel
"The Bible is not just man's word about God but also God's word about man." --Karl Barth
"Instead of reading the Bible as orthodoxy, or morality, or history, we take the Bible as a range of imagination that provides the community around the text with narrative and stories and songs and poetry and images that have the potential to move beyond themselves . . . the Bible is not user-friendly to those who like the way the world is organized. It is inherently subversive."
--Walter Brueggemann
"The Bible is a redescribing of reality."
"Our Bible study offers new understanding and experience of God, the world, and ourselves through the lens of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection."
"We need to read the Bible in principle and practice beginning with the gospel narrative of Jesus and the radically new thing he brings to the human situation. Jesus does not fit any of the current schemes of biblical interpretation, biblical literalist, literary critical, dispensationalist, which make the text more important than Jesus himself and thus neutralize the revolution of his teaching. Rather we should see that Jesus has brought a transforming possibility of nonviolence and forgiveness to our way of being human, and all biblical interpretation, including the pathways of revelation from the Old Testament, flow from that." --Anthony Bartlett
We engaged in a lively discussion of Matthew 15:21-28, a fascinating, revealing, and even confounding text. We not only read the story, but in our discussion, the story and its power began to "read" us!
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