Althochdeutsche Annäherungen an Ekkehart IV

Prayer, formation, and scriptural interpretation

“…67 As Sonderegger writes, 'our knowledge of God is reliable, trustworthy, genuine, because the One God gives Himself to be known; He creates us the creatures fit for His self-offering'. 68 It is precisely as creatures, sanctified in grace, that we know God and can thus truly open scripture. Again, it is not that prayer itself imparts knowledge of God or reveals truths with scripture, but that it forms the pray-er into the kind of creature who reads scripture more fruitfully.…”

To Think and to Speak of the Living God: Katherine Sonderegger's Systematic Theology, Volume 2

“…27 For Sonderegger, the affirmation of scripture as 'holy likeness and mirror' -as the uniquely elected locus of divine encounter -is axiomatic. 28 To speak of God as the 'author' of the Bible, as she does, is to assert that it 'exposes, manifests, [and] enacts the Being of the High God'. 29 She explains, When we read the Bible, then, we are being shown the Fabric and Contour of the Divine Transcendence.…”

“…28 To speak of God as the 'author' of the Bible, as she does, is to assert that it 'exposes, manifests, [and] enacts the Being of the High God'. 29 She explains, When we read the Bible, then, we are being shown the Fabric and Contour of the Divine Transcendence. The Bible is not a story, first and primarily, about the Divine Missions or the divine economy with us.…”

“…31 'Holy Scripture' she contends, is 'a wholly-redeemed creature' bearing the 'fullness of the Mystery, laid down in the patterns, sinews, verba and events of this text'; it is sanctified in such a way that the divine 'Life is communicated, bestowed, and lavished upon these Writings, elevating them to this work they alone can do'. 32 Indeed, it is the indwelling divine presence itself which 'inhabiting, hallowing, and consecrating these Pages' makes them 'theophanic', that is, makes them serviceable as a site of encounter with God and so also an occasion for the redemption of the intellect -including the theological intellect -by leading it to rational worship of God as its proper end. 33 Thus, the Bible is not primarily a diverse, all-too-human library collecting the traces of the manifold experiences of the people of God across the millennia -though it is also this secondarily.…”