"The Lord is about to Pass By"

The Movement of God in the Movements of Scripture

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From the beginning, the church, shaped in the wisdom of Israel’s faith, has regarded the reading of Scripture as a sacred and so sanctifying task. As Fr John Behr has said, the earliest Christians were “people of the book”—and not in the weak sense we sometimes suppose. In justly famous lines from his work on the development of the Nicene tradition, Be…