Williams bemoans loss of listening to Scripture

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[Episcopal Life Online] 18 Apr 2007--The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, has lamented what he called the lack of "rootedness" in the Anglican approach to Scripture and said "we've lost quite a bit of what was once a rather good Anglican practice of reading the Bible in the tradition of interpretation."

He added: "We read the Bible less in worship. We understand and know it less ... [we're] either underrating it or misrating it, making it carry more than it's meant to, as Richard Hooker says ... We don't have a very clear sense that we're reading the Bible in company with its readers from the centuries and indeed, at the present moment."

Williams made the observation in response to a comment about a seeming lack of theological tradition among Anglicans, following a Larkin-Stuart lecture delivered April 16 before an audience of mostly theology students from Wycliffe and Trinity Colleges in Toronto.