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Synopsis
Leading Catholic biblical scholar Henry Wansbrough charts the use and abuse of scripture throughout the ages.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Which Bible? What is the Bible?1. The First Century: The Interpretation of the Old Testament in the New2. The Second Century: Melito and Irenaeus 3. The Third Century: Origen 4. The Fourth Century: Jerome 5. The Dark Ages: Bede and the Bible 6. The High Middle Ages: Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Aquinas 7. Two Norfolk Ladies: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe8. Martin Luther 9. The Bible in the Politics of Early Seventeenth Century England 10. John and Charles Wesley11. Newman 12. The Bible and the State of Israel13. Lectio DivinaBibliographyTimeline