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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...

By the middle of the third century, the “secondary legislation” interpretive approach advocated by Justin, Irenaeus, and Tertullian had become so well established and widespread that it was embraced as part of the apostolic tradition itself. This is clearly evident from its presence in the Didascalia Apostolorum (The Teaching of the Apostles), a work that purports to be the proceedings of the apostolic council recorded in Acts 15. The text comes to us
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