“As a Christian interpreter living in a pagan world, Origen was able to see clearly that Gentile converts to the faith needed to have their minds re-made, and that instruction in how to read Scripture was at the heart of Paul’s pastoral practice: Gentiles needed to be initiated into reading practices that enabled them to receive Israel’s Scripture as their own.”[100] This “conversion of the imagination” by reading Scripture happens primarily and affectively when Scripture is encountered liturgically (communally in worship). When we encounter Scripture in worship, we are invited into its
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