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Lectio Divina - Lectio divina: foundations and practice
Lectio Divina - Lectio divina: foundations and practice
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Lectio divina: foundations and practice We have given a brief overview of what lectio divina is and what makes it possible. We are now ready to look at the ways in which this prayerful, ecclesial method of reading the Bible is both traditional and contemporary…
Lectio Divina - How the bible has been read
Lectio Divina - How the bible has been read
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
How the Bible has been read As we continue to describe an approach to Scripture that can lead us to an encounter with Christ, God’s definitive Word to humanity, it will help to look very briefly at the different ways people have read the Bible over the course of its history…
Lectio Divina - Listening
Lectio Divina - Listening
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Listening If we want our time spent with the Bible to be productive, we need to listen intensely, with a listening heart (lev shomea, 1 Kings 3.9). The entire Bible is predicated on the fact that God speaks and people listen. People in the Bible walk by faith and not by sight, be…
Lectio Divina - The whole Bible as a unity
Lectio Divina - The whole Bible as a unity
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
The whole Bible as a unity The attitude of ‘hearing the word of God with reverence’ (Dei Verbum 1), which we express by interpreting Scripture with its divine authorship in mind, also involves paying attention to the ‘unity of the whole of Scripture’ (DV 12). Only the unity of th…
Lectio Divina - God's word and scripture
Lectio Divina - God's word and scripture
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
God’s Word and Scripture In the first two chapters of this book I offered some reflections in answer to the question, ‘Why spiritual exegesis?’ In the chapters to come, we will ask who should do lectio divina and look at how and where it is done. Before we turn to this topic, we …
Lectio Divina - Is a spiritual approach to the Bible relevant today?
Lectio Divina - Is a spiritual approach to the Bible relevant today?
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Is a spiritual approach to the Bible relevant today? I have spoken about Origen at some length because he is the classic representative of a tradition of interpretation that ‘was the formula for Christian biblical exegesis as it was practised without interruption until the sixtee…
Lectio Divina - The room and the keys
Lectio Divina - The room and the keys
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
The room and the keys The Hebrew has passed on a beautiful tradition to us; it has to do with divine Scripture in its entirety. According to this man, all of divinely inspired Scripture, because of the obscurity that is in it, can be compared to many locked rooms in a house. Next…
Lectio Divina - Abbreviations and Introduction
Lectio Divina - Abbreviations and Introduction
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Abbreviations and Introduction With these few elementary notes on lectio divina, we hope to have provided readers with an opportunity to renew or develop a taste for a way of reading Scripture which is as old as the church itself, and which has deep roots in Judaism. I don’t thin…
Lectio Divina - Series Foreword
Lectio Divina - Series Foreword
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Series Foreword To read Enzo Bianchi’s work is, among other things, to be forcefully made aware that we have got used to a rather thin diet of resources to help us read the Bible. We have plenty of good scholarship and plenty of good popular summaries of that scholarship – but ve…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Groaning in Labor Pains
The Women's Bible Commentary - Groaning in Labor Pains
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Re-creation of Land and People In chapters 36 and 37 God acts not just to renew Israel and the land, but to re-create them entirely. Chapter 36 has the re-creation of both people (36:26–27) and land (36:1–15, 35) in view, whereas 37:1–14 famously focuses on the rebirth of the peo…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Re-creation of Land and People
The Women's Bible Commentary - Re-creation of Land and People
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Re-creation of Land and people In chapters 36 and 37 God acts not just to renew Israel and the land, but to re-create them entirely. Chapter 36 has the re-creation of both people (36:26–27) and land (36:1–15, 35) in view, whereas 37:1–14 famously focuses on the rebirth of the peo…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Pentecost - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Pentecost - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Pentecost - Year B Service Contains: Hymn: Into a world of dark or This awesome world that fills us with amazement Prayer: God, who breathed life Reading: Acts 2:1-21 Hymn: There’s a spirit in the air or Simultaneous translation Psalm 104:24-34, 35b Reading: Ezekiel 37:1-14 Hymn:…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Ascension - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Ascension - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Ascension - Year B Service Contains: Hymn: Christ is alive! Let Christians sing or Beginning with blessing Prayer: Unexpected God, Psalm 47 or Psalm 93 Reading: Acts 1:1-11 Poem: The times and seasons are beyond Reading: Ephesians 1:15-23 Luke 24:44-53 Hymn: The Saviour when to h…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year B Service Contains: Hymn: Morning has broken or Sunlight glinting on the water Prayer: Generous and caring God, we come Hymn: Have faith in God, my heart or Blown by the winds of chance and fault Psalm 1: Poem: Which way? Reading: Acts 1:15-17, 21-…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year B Service Contains: Hymn: Come all you people, come and praise your maker or The Psalmist calls for new songs praising God Prayer: Loving Father God Psalm 98 Poem: Come crooners and crows Hymn: Sing to the great Jehovah’s praise or See all creation l…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Fourth Sunday of Easter - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Fourth Sunday of Easter - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Fourth Sunday of Easter - Year B Service Contains: Hymn: God is here as we his people or Like the palette of a painter Psalm 23 (as a reading, or said together, this Psalm can be used to introduce the prayer which follows) Prayer: Psalm 23 – Responsive prayer Hymn: Jesus call us …
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Third Sunday of Easter - Year B