Anglicans to re-evaluate how they interpret Scripture

by Lillian Kwon, Christian Post
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

The Anglican Consultative Council expressed support on Saturday for a project that will explore the ways Anglicans worldwide read and interpret Scripture.

The Bible in the Life of the Church project is being launched to build "understanding, trust and respect" among those who differ in biblical interpretations.

Formerly, the Anglican Communion had been called on in 2004 to "re-evaluate the ways in which we have read, heard, studied and digested scripture". The request, however, was largely neglected.

"We can no longer be content to drop random texts into arguments, imagining that the point is thereby proved, or indeed to sweep away sections of the New Testament as irrelevant to today's world, imagining that problems are thereby solved," a provision in the 2004 Windsor Report states. the rest