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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...

Through this consideration of sonship, Cardinal Ratzinger demonstrated that the Church’s dogma is never far from the page of Scripture. I mentioned earlier his assertion that “Catholic dogma … derives all its content from Scripture.”20 Elsewhere, he states that “dogma is by definition nothing other than an interpretation of Scripture.”21 Dogma is the Church’s infallible interpretation of the sacred text. Thus there is no contradiction, no opposition, between the Jesus of history to the Christ of
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