Biblical Exegesis and Church Doctrine (Biblia.com)

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In this book, Raymond Brown reflects on the interplay between biblical criticism employed by a majority of Roman Catholic scholars and the doctrinal proclamations of the Catholic Church. He also presents his argument for how liberals and ultraconservatives both misinterpret the effects of biblical criticism on doctrine. He gives special attention to the positive results of contemporary biblical...

of criticism is the insistence that historical criticism must be allowed to make its major contribution toward answering the question of biblical meaning. The maxim of Pope Pius XII (Divino Afflante Spiritu 23 [RSS 550]) remains valid: “Let the interpreters bear in mind that their foremost and greatest endeavor should be to discern and define clearly that sense of the biblical words which is called literal.” . Sometimes advocates of particular

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