It is not a bolt from the blue, a moment of rare liberation for
Catholic biblical scholars.
Few
Catholic biblical scholars would argue today that Jesus instituted the papacy with particular words to Peter.
Couldn't one just as logically argue that the Vatican's refusal to permit even discussion of changes in church order — despite a quasi-consensus among
Catholic biblical scholars, historians and theologians for perhaps 15 years — is the more basic complicating factor?
Many look to
Catholic biblical scholars to show how new findings in this area cohere with Catholic faith and teaching.
The notes in this CTS Bible are a sign that there is some attempt to return to tradition, though the reverential spirit that inspired
Catholic biblical scholars until the 1950s is still not there.
In the words of one older
Catholic biblical scholar to this writer, «But did Paul have any ethics?»
Not exact matches
Some
biblical scholars (including Jewish ones) believe that the Code of Leviticus was intended to apply ONLY to worshippers going up to Jerusalem, and priests and levites going up to the Temple to perform their yearly duties, something similar to the old Roman
Catholic communion fast.
And the book also offers a deliberately wide array of approaches to trinitarian issues, including not only historical and systematic theologians, but
biblical scholars and analytic philosophers of religion, writing from a variety of theological and communal points of view» Roman
Catholic, Protestant, and, in one case, Jewish (the New Testament
scholar Alan Segal, who contributes an instructive if somewhat technical chapter on the role of conflicts between Jews and Christians in the emergence of early trinitarian teaching).
Roman
Catholic scholars, on the other hand, continue to affirm that Paul was the author because the
Biblical Commission took this position.
An interview with
Catholic Islamologist Michel Cuypers earlier this year with Il Regno, has highlighted this and that today a growing number of Islamic
scholars are calling for modern
Biblical - like exegesis.
The cardinal's attempt to provide
biblical, patristic, medieval, and canonical arguments in favor of his proposal have been seriously criticized, in the proper academic sense of the term, by responsible
scholars (the standard reference here is Remaining in the Truth of Christ: Marriage and Communion in the
Catholic Church, edited by Robert Dodaro, OSA [Ignatius Press]-RRB-.
Scott Hahn has founded a study centre specifcally to «promote
biblical literacy for
Catholic lay people and
biblical fuency for
Catholic scholars and clergy» — a fruit of Pius XII's Divino Afante Spiritu and Vatican II's Dei Verbum.
Fogarty's portrait of the persecution (there is no other word for it) of the
Catholic University
biblical scholar Henry Poels is a sobering reminder of how zeal for the Lord can, in the wrong hands, become mere zealotry.
Catholic author and
Biblical scholar Stephen J. Binz, has written a book on the topic, St. Joseph, My Real Estate Agent: The Patron Saint of Home Life and Home Selling.