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Article: Take, Read: Scripture, Textuality, and Cultural Practice.
- Article from:
- The Ecumenical Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
- Author:
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Wesley Kort, Take, Read: Scripture, Textuality, and Cultural Practice, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996, 156pp.
Wesley Kort's Take, Read is a tour de force directed against the claims of post-modern deconstructionism, according to which nothing can be read as scripture. It takes the form of a proposal for returning to a pre-critical view of reading a text -- any text -- "as though" (sicut) it were scripture. Specifically, the return is to Calvin's doctrine of reading the Bible; this is pursued through the work of Maurice Blanchot and Julia Kristeva who, according to Kort, offer signs that such a return may be on the horizon as a cultural practice.