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Letter & Spirit, Volume 7: The Bible and the Church Fathers: The Liturgical Context of Patristic Exegesis is unavailable, but you can change that!

Letter and Spirit is a journal of Catholic biblical theology that seeks to foster a deeper conversation on Sacred Scripture. It aims to address the many questions surrounding the Bible and including: • What is it? • Where does it come from? • How should you read it? • What claim should it make in your life, on the teaching and practice of the Church, or the world you live in? This...

suited both for slaves and those who are as yet undisciplined [indisciplinatis]; and gives fitting [congruentia] precepts to those that are free, and have been justified by faith, as well as throws His own inheritance open to those that are sons (A.H. 4.9.1).32 God’s plan for salvation history is presented in terms of fatherly pedagogy. God is raising up sons in his Son, Christ Jesus. This pedagogy forms the rationale behind the different laws imposed by God in history. God imposes “fitting precepts”
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