The Life of Our Fathers

Silviu Nicolae Bunta

Published by None in 2025-01-01

This book addresses the question, "How does Scripture work in the Orthodox Tradition?" It challenges the assumption that interpretation requires method, arguing instead that the heart of Orthodox engagement with Scripture lies in liturgy and asceticism. Rather than fostering analytical distance, the Tradition calls for a participatory reading--one that involves the surrender of the ego and a transformative union with the text. The book further contends that this approach is not imposed from outside but is demanded by Scripture itself. In confronting modern expectations for interpretive techniques and certainty, the book warns that replacing the liturgical-ascetical lens with more analytical methods risks not just a departure from tradition, but the formation of a different kind of reader--one shaped not by communion, but by self-centeredness.--Publisher.

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