People who love art, or music, or cinema can go away and study these things in a scholarly way – they lose their innocence, their naivety. It can take time, even a conscious effort to re-appreciate the art, music, or films. There, hopefully, comes a “second naivety” – even deepened by the study.
The same is true for the scriptures, and our general appreciation of our faith. We can fall in love with the scriptures and then find, when we study them in a scholarly way (“critically” is the technical term) that people lose their innocence. Many people are shocked to discover contradictions; and that some “history” in the Bible never happened; and so on. Some react by losing their faith. Some react by hardening a fundamentalism: the contradictions, they argue, aren’t really there; the history did happen; and so on.
Or we can find a third way – not losing our faith, not fundamentalism – we can find a second naivety which accepts contemporary scholarship and still hears what the Spirit says to us and to the Church through the scriptures.
This is yet another attempt of me as a beginner shorts creator.
One way of finding what the Spirit is saying to us is Lectio Divina.
Do follow:
The Liturgy Facebook Page
The Liturgy Twitter Profile
The Liturgy Instagram
and/or sign up to a not-too-often email
