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# Growing up in our readings
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/20041022growing-up-in-our-readings-html/
- Published: 2004-10-22T03:46:35.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:35:23.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Faith, #DashHouseCom, #wp

N.T. Wright [challenges our assumption that we know what’s in the Bible](http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/142/42.0.html?ref=dashhouse.com):

> One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that *it’s sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what’s in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business*. I look forward to the day, and I think the report is pressing for this very strongly, when not in some kind of fundamentalistic way but with real serious creative engagement and interpretative activity with Scripture, we can actually really learn from one another and one another’s readings of Scripture. Not that all readings are equally good. I would never dream of saying that, of course, as a biblical scholar. But that we do need to listen to one another in our readings of Scripture and we need to grow up in those readings. And frankly, some of the readings of Scripture which come out of the liberal tradition, and some of the readings which come out of the so-called conservative tradition are really immature readings of Scripture and need to be challenged. I and others spend our lives trying to do that.