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we will examine the senses of Scripture as well as the Catholic principles for interpreting the Bible. Furthermore, we’ll discuss the different exegetical or hermeneutical tools and the meaning of inspiration.
outline of the distinctively Catholic approach to reading and interpreting the Bible: 1. From the beginning the Bible and the church have existed in a circular or symbiotic relationship. 2. The Bible is best understood as the word of God in human language. 3.
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Reading the whole Bible from beginning to end (from the Book of Genesis to the Book of Revelation). Reading thirty or more minutes each day, or one or more chapters each day, throughout the year. Various plans for reading the whole Bible in one or more years are available in print or online.
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How Catholics Read the Bible. “Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things about himself in all the scriptures.”. We read Scripture in the light of the Jesus’ incarnation, birth, life, death and resurrection. Jesus is the lens.
The Catholic Bible has seven books and parts of two others in the Old Testament that are not found in Protestant Bibles. Catholics refer to these books as the Deuterocanonical books while Protestants refer to them as apocryphal books. Deuterocanonical means second canon; deutermeaning second.
Catholic principles for reading the Bible are: 1. The Catholic Church believes that God is the principal author of Sacred Scripture. 2. God used certain people who wrote in human language at a particular time and place in history. Their writings reflected them – their personalities and their educations. The
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Dec 18, 2017 · With over one hundred English translations of the Bible available today, how do we know which to use? Here's a list of approved translations a Catholic can choose from.