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Pierced by Love, with Dr. Hans Boersma

Mere Fidelity

CHAPTER

Lectio Divina: A Subjectivist Lucy Gucci Reading of Scripture

Lectio Divina can be a subjective subjectivist Lucy Gucci reading of scripture where you just import your own emotions and feelings into the scriptures and go wild. That's certainly possible. One can read scripture in all sorts of ways and many of them very unhelpful. So, my understanding and I base this off the order tradition, especially meaning occurs in an encounter with the biblical text. It's not something purely objective that we merely have to grasp so that we then come with the one true meaning of the text. No, the scriptures amend the draws into the presence of God. That's what they're for. And if that's the purpose of the scriptures, our reading must

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