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  • 한기연 2025.04.29 10:19 글쓴이

    Richard Rohr — especially across books like The Universal Christ, The Divine Dance, What Do We Do With the Bible?, and his many talks — often summarizes Jesus' way of interpreting Scripture with several consistent main points.
    Here's a focused outline of Richard Rohr’s main insights about how Jesus interpreted Scripture:

    1. Jesus prioritized spirit over letter ("law of love" over "law of law")
    Rohr says Jesus did not treat Scripture as a static, literal rulebook.

    Instead, Jesus read Scripture dynamically, emphasizing God’s compassion, inclusion, and love over rigid adherence to laws.

    "The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life" (2 Corinthians 3:6 — a Pauline echo that Rohr highlights).

    2. Jesus practiced selective, evolving interpretation
    Jesus chose certain Scriptures to emphasize (like the prophets calling for justice and mercy) and ignored or reinterpreted others (like purity codes, violent commands).

    Rohr often points out:

    "Jesus quotes Hosea’s 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice' twice — but never quotes the book of Leviticus."

    This discerning, non-flat reading showed that not all Scripture passages are equally weighted.

    3. Jesus used Scripture relationally, not legalistically
    Rohr emphasizes that Jesus used Scripture to heal, liberate, forgive, and include, not to exclude or condemn.

    Example:

    When quoting Isaiah in Luke 4 ("The Spirit of the Lord is upon me..."), Jesus stops mid-verse and omits the part about "the day of vengeance of our God."

    → This shows Jesus reframed Scripture to proclaim good news, not retribution.

    4. Jesus resisted violent and punitive images of God
    Rohr notes that Jesus contradicted the violent, wrathful portrayals of God in some Scriptures by revealing a nonviolent, loving, forgiving God.

    The cross, for Rohr, represents God absorbing violence rather than inflicting it, which contrasts with the punitive models many Scriptures seem to suggest.

    5. Jesus fulfilled Scripture by transforming its meaning
    Rohr explains that for Jesus, “fulfilling” the law and prophets (Matthew 5:17) didn’t mean rigidly obeying every command.

    It meant bringing Scripture to its fullest expression:
    justice, love, mercy, and healing.

    6. Jesus revealed that God’s revelation is ongoing, not closed
    For Rohr, Jesus shows that revelation is a living relationship, not a frozen text.

    Jesus' life itself was a form of "new Scripture" — living out God's word in dynamic interaction with human experience, not simply repeating old writings.

    Rohr’s Summary Point:
    Jesus is the Word of God, not the Bible.
    The Bible points to the Living Word — which is ultimately Christ, love, mercy, inclusion, and forgiveness.

    In What Do We Do With the Bible?, Rohr says bluntly:

    "The Bible is not itself the revelation. It is the witness to the revelation."

    And Jesus showed us how to read the Bible: through the lens of mercy, not mechanics.


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