One can truly say that the WORD OF GOD has sacramental power. We believe that as the Old Covenant drew to a close, in order to make possible a new and deeper relationship of love between God and man, the … Continue reading
Category Archives: A Look at the New Testament
I have decided that I would, in this article about understanding the New Testament (NT), temporarily retreat from the more formal and technical explanation of our sacred writings that I have been doing and offer a more global understanding of … Continue reading
Our Eastern Catholic Church believes that the Bible is God’s word, revealed for the salvation of humanity. Our doctrine holds that God inspired the writing of the Bible in its original languages, but that translations, by their very nature, are … Continue reading
In the last issue I introduced the Eastern Church’s idea of Theoria with regard to the Bible. Thus it is obvious that the interpretation of the Scriptures according to Theoria mandates not only a recognition of the Bible’s inspiration, but … Continue reading
In the last issue of the article, I introduced the Eastern Church’s idea of Theoria with regard to the Bible. It basically states that the New Testament Scriptures are meant to draw us into a personal relationship with God through … Continue reading
While there is no one particular way of interpreting the Scriptures in the Eastern Church, a certain attitude and perspective is necessary to maintain while studying the Bible. It is summed up in the Eastern Christian concept of Theoria. Although … Continue reading
The Eastern Church’s perspective on biblical inspiration is that the bible is, first and foremost ecclesial, that is closely connected to the fact that it is the sacred scriptures of the Church, the People of God. The “eucharistic and trinitarian” … Continue reading
In this article I am still presenting a multitude of ideas about inspiration. As I have already suggested, the Church has been wrestling with this idea for centuries. She has attempted to preserve the fact that the writings that we … Continue reading
In order to insure the clarity of what inspiration is and is not, it is probably important to first state what inspiration is not. The following four points should be helpful. Inspiration is not: 1) mechanical dictation, or perhaps automatic … Continue reading
As I shared in the last issue of this article, the Church recognizes two senses of Scripture, the literal and the spiritual. I already shared what the Church sees as the literal sense. The spiritual sense of Sacred Scripture derives … Continue reading