https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.35139522.3 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.35139522.3 A tension exists in American versions of Christianity: What does it mean to be ...

This is allegory; it doesn’t read according to the plain sense of Jesus’ words. Augustine’s interpretation is dismissed ...

New strategies for interpreting Scripture turn out to be not so new—and deepen our life in Christ. A wide range of voices claims that a crisis of biblical interpretation is taking place. But contrary ...

Trends in biblical interpretation come and go, even while the basic text has endured for almost two millennia. New and forthcoming biblical studies books can’t leave the apostle Paul alone, continue ...

The following are the basic Biblical interpretative methods which I offer as guidelines for your Bible study. For a clear understanding, please make sure you grab last week’s and next week’s articles.

The Catholic view of authority and Holy Scripture is not about some ubiquitous churchman looking over everyone’s shoulder so that they would interpret each verse exactly as the Church says it ought to ...

In October 2012, Dr. Lukas Dorfbauer, a researcher at the University of Salzburg, was examining the manuscripts of the Cologne Cathedral Library. He was looking at an anonymous manuscript and realized ...

As we mark the 50th anniversary of “Dei Verbum,” the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, promulgated by Pope Paul VI on Nov. 18, 1965, we note that one effect has been increased study of and ...