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“To relish the feast that is Scripture, we need to use multiple models.” A Christian never gains all that Scripture offers by reading it with just one approach. Yet too often this is attempted—whether through an academic obsession with the historical-critical method or through a consumerist approach that seeks only the motivation of the moment. Mark Reasoner broadens the options for scriptural...

We may approach the level of inspiration first through the lens of content. Is everything that Scripture says inspired? Or is Scripture inspired especially in regard to what leads us to God? The Catholic Church has been working out how best to speak of Scripture’s inspiration for centuries, in ways appropriate to contemporary circumstances in the Christian family. The Council of Trent responds to Protestant developments, and so begins its section on Scripture with an insistence