Sunday, October 1, 2023

Wilfred Cantwell Smith on Scripture

  

Scripture is a human, and a historical fact. We may say: is a human, and therein an historical fact—intimately involved with the movement, the unceasingly changing specificity of historical process, its grandeur and its folly.

 

Even those who regard one particular scripture as God-given, or as transcendently absolute, must recognized that without a human response to it, without a community, reception and preservation of it, it is otiose. (Wilfred Cantwell Smith, What is Scripture? A Comparative Approach [Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993], 21)

 

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