I fell behind this last semester on the secondary reading from my New Testament class so I brought it along with me... of this, there was a chapter from Eugene Peterson's "Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading". The chapter, "Ears Thou Hast Dug for Me", which is a contemporary work attempting to rediscover the worth of the ancient practice of lectio divina. Thoughts from Eugene Peterson... "Lectio divina is not a methodical technique for reading the Bible. It is a cultivated, developed habit of living the text in Jesus' name. This is the way, the only way, that the Holy Scriptures become formative in the Christian church and become salt and leaven in the world. It is not through doctrinal disputes and formulations, not through strategies to subdue the barbarians, not through congregational programs to educate the laity in the 'principles and truths' of the Scriptures - not in any of the ways in which the Bible is so commonly and vigorously promoted among us as an impersonal weapon or tool or program. It is astonishing how many ways we manage to devise for using the Bible to avoid a believing obedience, both personal and corporate, in receiving and following the Word made flesh." (116-17)
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