An eschatological sense of scripture?

In 2004, I wrote these words:

In the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead – the most dramatic revelation of God’s power since creation (see Rom 4:17) – we receive public notification that, in the work of Jesus, God himself was at work. He was handed over to death for our trespasses and was raised for our justification (Rom 4:25). How much more can the believer expect salvation from the wrath to come! As Paul describes it in 1 Cor 15, we are shown in the risen Christ the trajectory of what is to come. The death and resurrection of Christ “according to the Scriptures” are a powerful affirmation of those Scriptures from within the present age ahead of the final “yes” of God, which is yet to come.

Recognition of the place in salvation history from which we receive and read the Scriptures means that we can strongly affirm the meaningfulness of those writings without claiming that we have complete mastery over that meaning here and now. We also know that we read those Scriptures with the responsibility to answer to their divine author for how we read and respond. Rowan Williams makes a fruitful suggestion along these lines when he speaks of reading for an “eschatological sense” of Scripture:[1] by which he means that, as we read the Scriptures, we read as seriously as we can to discern the meaning of those writings, not shirking the discomfort of disagreement or avoiding the painful truth in them, but neither claiming an ultimacy for our reading that it is not ours to claim. Reading with this eschatological sense we may avoid merely co-opting Scripture in the service of our own power and instead become its servants: not using the text, but being used by it.

[1] R. Williams, "The Discipline of Scripture," On Christian Theology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000) p. 59.

I still think the major thrust is ok here, but I can see that Williams is uncomfortable with almost any assertion at all. For him it is the tension between the readings that is itself somehow the point. I want to be able to say what he says but also to be able to say 'that is false teaching' when I see it, something he seems to find difficulty doing at the moment. I am trying to express a kind of critical realism/epistemic humility about our reading of scripture without capitulating to relativistic woolliness... any suggestions?