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Introducing Medieval Biblical Interpretation: The Senses of Scripture in Premodern Exegesis is unavailable, but you can change that!

Does medieval hermeneutics have continuing relevance in an age dominated by the historical-critical method? Ian Christopher Levy asserts that it does. Levy shows that we must affirm both the irreversible advances made by the historical-critical method and the church’s lasting commitment to the deeper spiritual senses beyond the immediate historical circumstances of the text. In Introducing...

another work: “Even if the expositors adapt some truths to Holy Scripture that the [human] author does not understand, there is no doubt but that the Holy Spirit, who is the principal author of Divine Scripture, did understand. Thus every truth that, without violating the circumstance of the letter, can be adapted to the Divine Scripture is the sense of Scripture.”37 These statements have created some confusion—and indeed some controversy—over whether Thomas believed that Holy Scripture contains
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