Reading within community occurs as we approach the text conscious that we are participants in the one faith community that spans the ages. This consciousness involves recognizing the theological heritage within which we stand as contemporary readers of the text. Because we come to the text as participants in a trajectory of faith--because we come as those who seek to understand the whole of scripture as the instrumentality of the Spirit's speaking to us--we do well to keep in view what the church through the ages has considered this biblical "whole" to be.
Stanley Grenz and John Franke, Beyond Foundationalism (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001), 91.
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