Why Scripture?

A Casual Argument for a Virtue

To call “Scripture” a virtue is, I admit, a bit of a stretch of the grammatical structure that these casual arguments—now spanning religion, pluralism, and humanity—have hitherto followed in their nomenclature. “Scripture,” strictly speaking, is a noun: the word simply means “writing” (scribo, scribere), though of course it has come to signify literatur…