“Scriptural interpretation is properly an ecclesial activity whose goal is to participate in the reality of which the text speaks by bending the knee to worship the God revealed in Jesus Christ. Through Scripture the church receives the good news… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
“The Song [of Solomon] captures the ecstatic aspect of love that is the main subject of the whole Bible.” — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“That the Old Testament represents God chiefly as angry Judge and vicious Warrior is a false stereotype. While these images are not absent, they… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“...our role as comforters is not to solve the problem of pain; even less is it to stick up for God. Trying to vindicate… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“The very idea of wisdom, as the Bible understands it, challenges the mind-set of our society and the view of knowledge that all of… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“And there we recognize that our frailty is not meant to cause us anxiety and sorrow. Rather, God means it to be a source… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“The Garden of Eden was the place where the first human creatures might have acquired wisdom: Eden was the place for total intimacy with… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“What gives a liturgy its plot? A liturgy is always a sort of drama, that is, an intentional sequence of events, however simple or… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“Contrition means finding the courage to let your heart break over sin. Willfully letting your heart break and then offering the pieces to God… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“The fourth-century Greek theologian St. John Chrysostom said that Job's greatest trial was that his wife was not taken.” — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“God accommodates [Moses'] complaints and makes in-course corrections. God does not take a human being so fully into the divine confidence--you might say, God… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“The problem was acutely described in 1909 in a penetrating essay by Adolf Schlatter: According to the sceptical position, it is true that the… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“...Job rails against God, not as a skeptic, not as a stranger to God's justice, but precisely as a believer. It is the very… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“For us the true measure of our wisdom will never be the grade point average we covet, a degree or rank, the right job,… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
“The sufferer who keeps looking for God has, in the end, privileged knowledge. ... She passes through a door that only pain will open,… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share
