Scott Hahns Review of the Great Adventure Bible

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150 Antiphon 14.i (2010) audience includes engaged couples, hymeneals planners, priests, ministers , and rabbis. Such an audience will doubtlessly benefit from the applied communication offered at the stop of every chapter and at various other points in the book. The advice reflects a cracking deal of personal experience with weddings and a woman's touch that must take come from the female contributors to the book. For case, the second affiliate is remarkably sensitive to the various levels on which one must approach the selection of musicians and music, and even provides recommended playlists for weddings according to various musical budgets. This reviewer would certainly have benefitted from Wedding ceremony Rites if it were available when he planned his own nuptials thirteen years ago. Fortunately, today's young Catholics take somewhere to turn for a sound and handy resource to help them solemnize one of the most important moments of their lives. Daniel G. Van Slyke Kenrick-Glennon Seminary St Louis, MO Scott Hahn Catholic Bible Dictionary New York: Doubleday, 2009 xvi + 992 pages. Hardbound. $45 While serious written report of the Bible amid Catholics was virtually unknown in the early twentieth century, ii mid-century magisterial documents attempted to mitigate this deficiency. Pope Pius XII'south encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu (1943) and the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum (1965) gave Catholics the light-green low-cal to engage in the kind of biblical scholarship that Protestants and some Catholics had been doing for more than than a century. This certainly had an influence on the intellectual climate of Catholic biblical scholars and, to some extent, priests and seminarians, but these documents and their message rarely reached the laity. Few take washed more to modify this than quondam Presbyterian minister and now Catholic professor and author, Scott Hahn. Dr Hahn has given the Church a great souvenir in this book. Running over a yard pages and covering almost any topic in the Bible one could imagine, this book is a great resources for new students of the Bible, seminarians, priests preparing for homilies, parish Bible studies, and perhaps even first-twelvemonth academy students. It would besides make an ideal Confirmation gift (for Latin-rite Catholics, of course!). 151 Volume Reviews The lexicon runs from A-Z and covers all the major characters, place-names, events, and topics in the Bible. Since it is written from an unabashedly Cosmic perspective, Hahn and the other contributors do not hesitate to touch on on matters pertinent to the Catholic agreement of Scripture. Some of the most important entries are "Biblical Criticism," "Abraham," "Covenant," "Eucharist," "God," "Inspiration," "Interpretation of the Bible," "Justification," "Kingdom ," "Messiah," "Pontifical Biblical Commission," "Resurrection," "Divine Revelation," and "Sacrifice." This listing is by no means exhaustive , merely these are conspicuously some of the most of import entries for understanding Hahn'south overarching view of the Bible and how it fits into the life of the Church. Anyone familiar with the rest of Hahn's work, especially his recently released reworked dissertation, Kinship by Covenant (Yale, 2009) will not be surprised that these entries are so prominent in the dictionary. This is a reference book, and, because of its very nature, it is often superficial and oversimplifies complex scholarly debates and discussions. It is clear on well-nigh every folio that the book is informed by some of the results of historico-critical scholarship. Potentially problematic for the student is that whenever the results of historical criticism come out against the Church'south traditional, or possibly better, conventional pre-critical understanding, Hahn and the other contributors near always side with the pre-disquisitional tradition. In light of the scholarship that many notable Catholics, including Hahn, take done in the last few decades, such a position is hard to defend. To take i example, since the mid-eighteenth century and even earlier, many scholars began to question the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, which, until then, was virtually unquestioned in either Judaism or Christianity. By reading the texts carefully, many (at present, almost all) scholars recognized the existence of a variety of sources in the Pentateuch and that it is almost incommunicable that this compilation came from a single hand, let alone that of Moses. While the Pontifical...

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