Letter & Spirit, Vol. 2: The Authority of Mystery: The Word of God and the People of God (A Journal of Catholic Biblical Theology) by Scott Hahn & David Scott

Author:Scott Hahn & David Scott [Hahn, Scott & Scott, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9781931018357
Amazon: 1931018359
Publisher: Emmaus Road Publishing
Published: 2006-09-28T06:00:00+00:00

As we can see, Benedict notices how the New Testament's typological interpretation of the Old is often ordered to the sacramental liturgy, especially as regards the central sacraments of Christian initiation, baptism and the Eucharist. We also see in this passage his sense of the mystery of the Word as living and active, bringing about the very promises that it speaks of in the life of the believer. “Scripture alive in the living Church is also God's present power in the world today—a power which remains an inexhaustible source of hope throughout all generations.”143

It follows naturally that liturgy is the privileged context in which the community hears the Word and its authentic interpretation. This was the pattern of Christ at Emmaus, in which “beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself” (Luke 24:27). In the eucharistic liturgy, the New Testament readings are still heard as interpreting the Old Testament in light of Christ. And it is in the liturgy that the texts are “realized” or “actualized” as Scripture, as divine, salvific communications.

[T]he liturgy is the true, living environment for the Bible. . . . [T]he Bible can be properly understood only in this living context within which it first emerged. The texts of the Bible, this great book of Christ, are not to be seen as the literary products of some scribes at their desks, but rather as the words of Christ himself delivered in the celebration of holy Mass. The scriptural texts are thoroughly imbued with the awe of divine worship resulting from the believer's interior attentiveness to the living voice of the present Lord.144

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