Scot McKnight on "Rethinking How You Read the Bible"
DJ Chuang is at the National Pastor’s Convention in San Diego this week, and he’s posted a recap from Scot McKnight’s session on “The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible.”
DJ writes, “Scot McKnight believes that the Bible is a collection of wiki stories. That, we construct the story based on the wiki stories in the Bible, based on wiki stories of The Story. His 3 keywords to reading the Bible: story, listen, and discern.
“Scot’s closing mantra: In Moses’ day in Moses’ way … God speaks today in our way, as we discern together in community.”
The “blue parakeet” metaphor is the central image of Scot’s forthcoming book, due out from Zondervan in November.
DJ has posted two MP3s from Scot’s session if you want to hear it for yourself.
Related: The Out of Ur blog has a good summary of the pre-NPC panel discussion on “Emerging Critical Issues Facing the Church,” which featured Scot McKnight, Phyllis Tickle, Andy Crouch, and Tony Jones. The issues they discussed were: the role of Scripture, the church and politics, homosexuality, and religious pluralism.
Summarizing McKnight’s comments on Scripture, David Swanson writes, “Scot described the ‘primacy of Scripture’ method of biblical interpretation. Rather than reading through the lens of tradition, this method reads with tradition. Scot believes this is the most helpful way of reading the Bible, for it allows the church to be constantly reforming.”
UPDATE 2/29/2008: Let’s call this a “leap day” bonus: More Scot McKnight today in Christianity Today online. Read Scot’s article for the Christian Vision Project entitled “The 8 Marks of Robust Gospel.” And show Scot some love in the comments section. So far the commenters seem to be predominately negative and/or bizarre.
More McKnight: Take the hermeneutics quiz by Scot from Leadership Journal.
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