Reading Scripture with the Saints

The book you are holding is a small museum. On its pages hang portraits of Christianity's "e;masters of the sacred page"e;: Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine of Hippo, Benedict of Nursia, Maximus Confessor, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, and Charles Wesley. Other, surprising figures also appear: Shakespeare, Washington, and Lincoln. How did these great thinkers interpret Scripture? What might their dive...