Sacred Scripture
The canon of Scripture. Inspiration and inerrancy. The literal and spiritual senses. The Vulgate, the Septuagint, the Hebrew Masoretic text. How the Church received and reads the Bible.
2 articles in this pillar
- The Catholic Canon of Scripture: Why 73 Books, and Who DecidedThe Catholic Bible contains 73 books — 46 in the Old Testament, 27 in the New.
- The Four Senses of Scripture: How the Catholic Tradition Reads the BibleThe Catholic tradition reads Scripture on four levels: a literal sense (what the text says historically) and three spiritual senses — allegorical (what the text figures of Christ and his Church), moral (what the text directs about how…