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We do not simply interpret God’s word. His word interprets us. Figural interpretation has been a trademark of Anglican devotions from the beginning. Anglican readers—including Tyndale, Cranmer, Hooker, and Lewis—have been figural readers of the Bible. By paying attention to how words, images, and narratives become figures of others in Scripture, these readers sought to uncover how God’s word...

For the interpreters of this volume, the words of the Bible “give shape to everything around them” as the instruments which God uses to re-form the hearts and minds of his people. In this, they are shown to be the disciples of Thomas Cranmer, who sought to transfigure an entire nation’s life “in accordance with the Scriptures” (1 Cor 15:3 ESV). Cranmer believed that while this grand ambition was set before him as the spiritual head of the Church of England, it was also beyond him. He was convinced
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