First, let me set the stage by offering three brief anecdotes about the anxieties raised by doctrinal development and change within the church. Once, when the Reverend Myles M. Bourke, former professor of Sacred Scripture at Dunwoodie, the major seminary of the Archdiocese of New York, was presenting an interpretation that denied the complete historical character of a scriptura (...)
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Renewing Authority
The Lesson of 'Dei verbum'
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