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Spirit & Life: Essays on Interpreting the Bible in Ordinary Time is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Scripture Matters, biblical theologian and teacher Scott Hahn introduced ordinary lay Catholics to the Catholic approach to interpreting the Bible. His presentation of good, sound biblical scholarship dealt squarely with questions of historical criticism, the Real Presence, and the place of Scripture in Catholic teaching. Now, in Spirit and Life, Hahn presents nine selected essays that teach...

I say this because both senses of place are true, and the two are inseparable. The bishop presides as God’s vicar in a particular diocese. And the bishop presides in God’s house—His holy temple—which is the cathedral. It would be impossible to speak of the cathedral as God’s house without speaking of the bishop as the image of God’s fatherhood on earth. Our word cathedral has a rich scriptural pedigree. It comes from kathedra, which means “seat of honor” and appears in the Septuagint and other Greek
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