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A Faithful Reading in the Grace of the Triune God: An Understanding of the Anthropology of Reading in J. Calvin's Institutes and A. Schopenhauer's Essays and Aphorisms and a Critical Reflection of the Recent Tendency of Reading the Bible in the Korean Church

Christian teaching about the reading the Bible is no mere formal principle of knowledge but rather a piece of practical, spiritual counsel. The way of reading the Bible is closely related to the way of understanding what the nature of the Bible is. Rightly grasping the nature of the Bible involves both rational assent and a pious disposition of mind, will and affection. Such attitudes are to characterise the faithful reader of the Bible, and their absence denotes a degenerate understanding of what is involved in reading it. To set the issue of reading the Bible, this essay first draws a contrast between a representative modern account of what might be termed the 'anthropology of reading' – that of A. Schopenhauer – and that of a reformer J. Calvin. For Schopenhauer, 'reading' totally depends on a way of someone's 'thinking'. So 'thinking' is always prior to 'reading'. However, for Calvin, reading, especially reading the Bible, is not simply human's spontaneous act, but human's response to what she is hearing from what s/he is reading. On the basis of this contrast, we move on to a dogmatic sketch of what it means to read the Bible in the economy of the grace of the triune God. And we reflect critically on the self-centred reading ofthe Bible which has been emerged and appeared among Korean Christians and theological seminaries.