http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/2482/
[Stand Firm] 6 Mar 2007--That is, I trust, good exegesis - reading out of the text. Schori, however, has given us a classic example of eisegesis, reading into the text. In that method you decide in advance what things mean and abuse the text to meet your agenda. When it comes from someone realtively uneducted in these matters then it's excusable. When it comes from a "Presiding Bishop" it's slightly more worrying.
Eisegesis is too common an approach to the Bible in The Episcopal Church in the new millenium. Should we be surprised that the new Presiding Bishop who rejects Jesus Christ as our only way to God and our only hope for salvation, a doctrine clearly taught in the New Testament, resorts to eisegesis in her handling (or should we say "mishandling) of Scripture.
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