“Lectio Divina”
The next major topic covered by the source document brought into question in this series[i] is “Lectio Divina.”[ii]
Our anonymous author merely refers to lectio divina as “Bible Reading”
in his heading of the subject and provides this as his opening
statement:
“For many Christian leaders Bible reading and study has become the means to preparing a teaching or preaching assignment.”
This
is probably truer than most would care to admit; and I am willing to
say that it may possibly be true of some, even many, who would profess
to embrace reformed theology and the doctrines of grace; many more than
we, who are quite orthodox and reformed, would care to admit.
Although the author of this piece quotes
Emergent leader, Tony Jones, and states that the origin of lectio divina
occurred approximately 500 years after Christ, instituted by a monastic
priest, Benedict, aka Saint Benedict,[iii] he
does n0t give much of a definition for lectio divina. Then again, he
did not have to because he cites the four phases of lectio divina in his
paper (which we will look at one by one). Prior to explaining each one
of the components, however, the author does provide an especially
revealing paragraph: Read it all HERE
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