It is most lively and productive to think of one body of literature, the Bible, representing in any time and place the testimony of the narrative stretching from Abraham to the Apostles, which can be juxtaposed to any other age by its Psalms being sung again, its letters being read again, its stories and parables being retold. Then in the juxtaposition of those stories with our stories there leaps the spark of the Spirit, illuminating parallels and contrasts, to give us the grace to see our age in God’s light and God’s truth in our words. This picture of how it works is more representative of the experienced facts but also more rigorous than the classical scholastic vision of an unchanging body of timeless propositions needing to be twisted to fit a new age by the special skills of rationalistic linguist
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This quote is form the previous link: Yoder, “The Use of the Bible in Theology“
Thinking about what place the Bible can serve, after its “authority” has been deconstructed through lit theory and historical-criticism, is one of those “lingering questions” for me.
