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Conversation With God
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha
In a 1984 interview in New Catholic World， Father John L.
McKenzie， whose books A Two Edged Sword and the Dictionary
of the Bible were among the most influential in teaching modern
Catholics to deal confidently with the findings of modern biblical
scholarship， said that the two remaining blocks to Catholic ap-
preciation and use of the Scripture for spirituality were \"in bib-
lical and theological fundamentalism (which is really illiteracy)
and a vague awareness that the Bible might recommend some
changes in the Christian s attitude to the world.\"
The answer to the first problem is for readers to approach the
Scriptures with the proper tools， aids available in the countless
popular and scholarly books on how to read the Bible， and in the
introductions and notes to the best new editions. The second
\"problem\" is not a problem but the very grace which the reading
should produce.
Reading the Scriptures is really a conversation between our
generation of believers and the centuries of believers who have
written and preserved these texts. But if a particular passage of
Exodus or Revelation does not really speak to our needs we
should not force it， unless perhaps the demands of a liturgical
season like Advent or Holy Week make us look at some aspect
of our lives--sin or indifference---we have been trying to deny.
A law student friend told me he reads a chapter of a Gospel a
night. I can think of no better plan--especially since he will inev-
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