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27792
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English
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On the Moral Risks of Reading Scripture
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Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah : Reading 2 Nephi 26-28
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Provo, UT
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Maxwell Institute
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93-110
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"Reading scripture in various religious cultures of the Book involves risk. If reading is posited as an encounter between the limited human understanding and the unlimited knowledge of God, faithful reading typically requires some kind of deference for the pure and transcendent meaning that the text purports to contain and healthy suspicion toward the impurities of human perception that might occlude such meaning. These impurities include our historicity (our embeddedness in time and space) and our partiality (our individual habits and proclivities of judgment that select and omit idiosyncratically in order to generate our interpretations of experience and texts alike)... In what follows, I wish to explore the theological implications of this process before then turning to a passage in 2 Nephi where we can identify these tensions." [From the text]