Letters From That City - A Guide to Holy Scripture for Students of Theology Fr. Edmund

Letters From That City - A Guide to Holy Scripture for Students of Theology Fr. EdmundAs St Augustine told his flock in Hippo Regis, the books of Scripture are letters that have come to us from the City toward which we are on pilgrimage. Yet for many decades, the teaching and study of Scripture in academic settings within the Catholic Church has served more to undermine faith than to nourish it. This disastrous situation has arisen through a forgetfulness or rejection of the principles that should guide exegesis. In particular, many

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we discover how a divinely-given opportunity for serious reform was tragically refused

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Smith and a useful appendix that summarizes key Church documents on sexual morality

the author examines God’s infinity and man’s creation from nothing

And why is belief in God important to the health of a democratic society

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and all manner of things shall be well

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an ideology her Church calls a “satanic scourge

could lead to a disintegration of this historical unity