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Opening up the Scriptures: Joseph Ratzinger and the Foundations of Biblical Interpretation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Opening Up the Scriptures was written by a group of eminent Catholics, including Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger—now Pope Benedict XVI. In these erudite essays the authors contend that historical-critical interpretation of Scripture has long since run its course in both Protestant and Catholic exegesis. Instead, they argue, the future of interpretation lies in accepting that the Bible is not just a...

character of exegesis and enumerated the key points of the theological method of interpreting the text: the fundamental presupposition on which theological understanding of the Bible rests is the unity of Scripture; the method that corresponds to this presupposition is that of the “analogia fidei,” that is, the understanding of individual texts in light of the whole. The document then offers two further indications about method. Scripture is one by reason of the historical subject that traverses
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