Reading the Scriptures as Gospel: Figuratively – Brad Jersak

“If you aren’t reading the Scriptures allegorically, you aren’t reading them as gospel.” —Fr. John Behr John Behr’s provocative statement surely triggers the Evangelical allergy for allegory, betraying a hermeneutic co-opted by modernism that privileges the literal sense into literalism. Is Behr’s bold claim hyperbole? How far is too far? Has he opened the door […]