Travelling back and forth in time between Bible Studies: information and formation

Before Christian Reformation, there was a lack of an analytical way of studying the Bible, the inductive study “Observation, Interpretation, Application” is an appropriate approach to develop an analytical way of studying the Bible. In the most recent decades, education has been common to all up to secondary/high school level, in which graduates were capable to comprehend a piece of writing analytically for information extraction and knowledge acquiring. However, the schooling we received has been training students more on information acquiring from reading, which is necessary and crucial in terms of skills preparation before entering the workforce, lesser on being formative. Therefore, in terms of Bible Study, besides having the inductive study, we may need to revisit older ways of studying the Bible such as Lectio/Visio Divina and Gospel contemplation before the Reformation era (e.g. prior to 15^th Century) to achieve a balance or enable us to juggle coherently between knowledge acquiring (information) and heart changing (formation/transformation).