Reading Scripture in the Spirit: A Biblical Spiritual Theology

Every authentic reading of the sacred Scriptures is, in the end the living encounter of a believer with the Word who is a Person, the Word who was in the beginning with God and is God. The question this book poses is at once simple and radical: how do we read Scripture in a way that is worthy of that encounter? The crisis of modern biblical interpretation is not, at its root, an academic crisis. It is a spiritual and theological one. This book is a sustained argument for the recovery and rigorous articulation of what we call Biblical Spiritual Theology: a fully theological method of reading Scripture that integrates historical and exegetical rigour with the transformative dynamism of the Spirit, without sacrificing either. It is the demonstration that authentic theological interpretation of the Bible, namely the kind practiced by the Fathers, deepened by the medieval tradition, retrieved by the ressourcement theologians of the twentieth century, and mandated by the Second Vatican Council, is both methodologically coherent and spiritually indispensable. May this book be an invitation to a deeper and more transformative encounter with the living Word.