A wonderful book fell into my lap yesterday as a side effect to going to our Bible study class. There on the coffee table was a copy of Donald Berry’s latest work Through A Glass Darkly (having been passed around by some of the folks in our church, at last it sat there waiting for me!) The subtitle of the book is “The Ambiguity of the Christian Tradition”…
Ambiguity, isn’t that sort of what this whole discussion is all about? Ambiguity of who is pure and who isn’t. Ambiguity of who’s doing it right and who isn’t. Ambiguity of which stories from the Bible are true and worthy to be followed literally and which aren’t. The general ambiguity of most of the Bible for that matter. Which creation story, which birth story, which ending of Mark is “right”.
Anyway, I’m working my way through this book by Dr. Berry, a priest and scholar from the wilds of Central New York (Colgate U. professor)…
Ambiguity! Ambiguity! What can you be thinking?