Scripture Matters: Essays on Reading the Bible from the Heart of the ChurchPopular author and scholar Dr. Scott Hahn has released a collection of essays on the study and interpretation of Scripture from a Catholic perspective. Aptly titled Scripture Matters: Essays on Reading the Bible from the Heart of the Church, Dr. Hahn takes a penetrating look into the depths of Scripture, showing the reader how to uncover its many layers of meaning and inspiration. Scripture Matters serves both as an instructional guide to reading the Bible and as a delightful meditation on the grandeur of God's Word. Dr. Hahn effectively illustrates his discussion with the writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Josemaría Escrivá, Cardinal Ratzinger, and other exemplary scholars of Scripture who truly speak "from the heart of the Church." |
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... sense, as we read any other human literature. But we read it also in a spiritual sense, searching out what the Holy Spirit is trying to tell us through the words. What the soul is to the body, the spiritual sense is to the literal. you ...
... sense, as we read any other human literature. But we read it also in a spiritual sense, searching out what the Holy Spirit is trying to tell us through the words. What the soul is to the body, the spiritual sense is to the literal. you ...
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... Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life” (2 Cor. 3:6, NIV). As Saint Augustine taught, the literal sense without the spiritual is not only dead, but deadly.2 Before we can read the Bible's spiritual sense, we need to ...
... Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life” (2 Cor. 3:6, NIV). As Saint Augustine taught, the literal sense without the spiritual is not only dead, but deadly.2 Before we can read the Bible's spiritual sense, we need to ...
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... Spirit then transmitted this vision, pure and whole, to future generations through the ... Spiritual interpretation is a science that is not just analytical, but also ... sense, a given passage could also convey a moral truth, about how a ...
... Spirit then transmitted this vision, pure and whole, to future generations through the ... Spiritual interpretation is a science that is not just analytical, but also ... sense, a given passage could also convey a moral truth, about how a ...
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... spiritual exegesis to draw doctrinal and mystical riches from the Bible. Augustine went so far as to say he couldn't ... sense. This made for some unfortunate results in spiritual exegesis that flatly contradicted historical fact. Saint ...
... spiritual exegesis to draw doctrinal and mystical riches from the Bible. Augustine went so far as to say he couldn't ... sense. This made for some unfortunate results in spiritual exegesis that flatly contradicted historical fact. Saint ...
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... spiritual senses. This integral meaning, according to Tradition, is reading Scripture as if god mattered. Or, in the gentler words of Vatican II, it's reading the Bible “with its divine authorship in mind” (DV, 12). The Catechism of the ...
... spiritual senses. This integral meaning, according to Tradition, is reading Scripture as if god mattered. Or, in the gentler words of Vatican II, it's reading the Bible “with its divine authorship in mind” (DV, 12). The Catechism of the ...
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