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Jun 9, 2017 · The most important part of late medieval Catholic meetings was the Mass (Eucharist, or what members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints call sacrament). The second most important element, however, was the “lectio” — the reading or lecture.
The Catholic Church did not want the common people to read the Bible. The common people were illiterate. The common people did not speak Latin. The people were not pious enough to bother reading the Bible. The people had a mindset that reading the Bible is the job of scholars or bishops.
May 29, 2014 · In “The 9 Most Important Issues Facing the Evangelical Church,” theologian Michael Vlach cites “Biblical Illiteracy in the Church” as his final concern. He agrees with George Barna’s assessment that “the Christian body in America is immersed in a crisis of biblical illiteracy.”
Mar 24, 2024 · The legend of Peter and Mark might be apocryphal, but it captures a very real ancient dynamic: people who were illiterate, people who had visual impairments, people who suffered from...
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In worship we know that Paul’s letters (and later the other New Testament books) as well as the Hebrew Scriptures were read aloud to the community; among other motivations, this benefited illiterate believers. Even the literate often used scribes.
Jul 10, 2017 · America has a literacy problem. Almost 14 percent of the adult population cannot read. But illiteracy isn’t just a problem in secular society. A far worse kind of illiteracy affects the church: Biblical illiteracy. Only 20 percent of Americans say they’ve read the entire Bible at least once.
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The Eastern Orthodox Church claims that their practices have been preserved unaltered from the early church, thus making them the pristine church in perfect continuity with the apostolic church...
