Is a spiritual approach to the Bible relevant today?

Is a spiritual approach to the Bible relevant today?

I have spoken about Origen at some length because he is the classic representative of a tradition of interpretation that ‘was the formula for Christian biblical exegesis as it was practised without interruption until the sixteenth century, when the critical era turned it into simply one possible way of reading the Bible’.1 Origen reminds us that reading Scripture can be ‘a complete exegetical act, one which integrates textual, liturgical and existential realities that are often weakened today by their mutual isolation’…