Unfolding Sacred Scripture: How Catholics Read the Bible

Download or read book Unfolding Sacred Scripture: How Catholics Read the Bible written by Michael Cameron and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 2015 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfolding Sacred Scripture How Catholics Read the Bible is a friendly, inviting little book that helps readers understand the characteristics of the Catholic approach to Scripture-those it shares with other Christians (that it is the revealed truth of God, for example)-and those that are distinctive (such as its sacramentality). Unpacking several recent Church documents that articulate the Catholic approach (Dei Verbum, 1965, Interpretation of the Bible in the Church, 1993, and Verbum Domini, 2009) it explains how Scripture's words and images are the building blocks of the Church, the liturgy, and the Christian life. As well as providing an overview of the historical development of the Church's reverence for Scripture, the book demystifies such concepts as reading Scripture with the Magisterium, figurative and literal approaches to interpretation, the historical critical method, and how reading Scripture is for Catholics a grass roots way of engaging theology.