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The Bible Compass: A Catholic’s Guide to Navigating the Scriptures is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Bible is central to the Catholic faith. But approaching such a large and complex collection of writings that span thousands of years can be intimidating. We need a guide, a compass to set us off on the right course so that our time spent studying the Scriptures is a time spent encountering the living God. The Bible Compass provides readers with the tools to study the Word of God with...

body is “a temple of the Holy Spirit” (1 Cor 6:19). Just as the Temple contained the awesome presence of God, so the bodies of Christians hold the presence of the Holy Spirit by virtue of their baptism. Anagogically, the Jerusalem Temple finds its eschatological meaning in the heavenly sanctuary, where God will dwell among us in our eternal home, as described in the book of Revelation (e.g., Rv 21:22). Sometimes associated with terms such as spiritual exegesis, typology, or sensus plenior, this method
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