A biblical hermeneutics of the ‘faith journey’
ACCORDING to the Church of Ireland’s rite, ‘Baptism marks the beginning of a journey with God which continues for the rest of our lives, the first step in response to God’s love.’ Those present are invited to evaluate their own ‘progress made on that journey. . . with the Church throughout the ages, journeying into the fullness of God’s love.’
ACCORDING to the Church of Ireland’s rite, ‘Baptism marks the beginning of a journey with God which continues for the rest of our lives, the first step in response to God’s love.’ Those present are invited to evaluate their own ‘progress made on that journey. . . with the Church throughout the ages, journeying into the fullness of God’s love.’
‘Journey’ here does not indicate geographic progression. Let us then consider how in life, without physically leaving home, the pew or indeed the deathbed, the reader of scripture can ‘journey’ faith- wise. What meaning can be found in reports of the historical and geographic movements of persons far removed from modern people in time, space and culture? What makes ‘journey’ so apt, in the Judaeo- Christian tradition, for expressing human experience of freedom and finitude, selfhood and transformation, and encounter with the living God?
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Criostor MacBruithin
Is Rector of Castlerock Christ Church, Diocese of Derry and Raphoe.