Using the method of spiritual reading, lectio divina or "divine
reading" as it is called in monasteries, John S. Dunne sets out his
interpretation of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and especially John in
Reading the Gospel.
Reading the Gospels, according to Dunne, means passing over into
the relation of Jesus with his God, the God he calls Abba in
prayer, and then coming back from that with a changed vision of
life and death. If I pass over into the relation of Jesus with God,
then Jesus disappears from in front of me and I find myself in
relation to what Jesus calls "my God and your God." When I come
back then to myself, I see my life in terms of his life and my
death in terms of his death and resurrection, and I am able to say
with Paul, "I live now, not I, but Christ lives in me."
"We read to know that we are not alone, " Dunne says, quoting
from Shadowlands, and we read the Gospels to know that God is with
us. "I believe in God-with-us, " he says as a personal creed
summing up the Gospels. He ends then with a kind of lyrical
commentary that he calls Songlines of the Gospel, twenty-one short
lyrics telling of the basic scenes in the Gospel of John.
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