The arts can... re-educate the modern reader of the Bible to read more richly - more traditionally but simultaneously more creatively - than they would otherwise do. They bequeath to us some wonderful exercises in contemplative dwelling in the Bible: inspiring models...
Ben Quash, Abiding. He also explores other aspects of 'abiding' cp. John 15
- place (the community of the parish church)
- care, which is closely related to presence;
- relationships; and
- exile;
as well as exploring abiding wounds and peace.
Most, if not all, explorations of 'abiding' I have come across explore it from a devotional, individual perspective. Ben Quash's approach is much richer, and perhaps gets closer to the sense that John intended, by widening the perspective. Thus he helps relate Jesus exhortation to 'consider the flowers of the field' of Matthew 6 to 'abiding'. Jesus is here dwelling on, I suggest, the art and craft of the Father, as seen through nature.
Ben Quash, Abiding. He also explores other aspects of 'abiding' cp. John 15
- place (the community of the parish church)
- care, which is closely related to presence;
- relationships; and
- exile;
as well as exploring abiding wounds and peace.
Most, if not all, explorations of 'abiding' I have come across explore it from a devotional, individual perspective. Ben Quash's approach is much richer, and perhaps gets closer to the sense that John intended, by widening the perspective. Thus he helps relate Jesus exhortation to 'consider the flowers of the field' of Matthew 6 to 'abiding'. Jesus is here dwelling on, I suggest, the art and craft of the Father, as seen through nature.
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