Verbum Domini (English)

by Pope Benedict XVI

Publisher:

Libreria Editrice Vaticana

, 2010

Overview

Verbum Domini, issued by Pope Benedict XVI, is an apostolic exhortation discussing the Catholic approach to the Bible. Exploring both theological foundations concerning the Word of God and practical applications that allow our Scripture study to affect our mission as the Church, Verbum Domini is a beautiful discussion of the necessity of Scripture in our daily lives.

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Key Features

• Summary of the Catholic understanding of sacred Scripture
• Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of the 12th ordinary general assembly of the Synod of Bishops

Contents

Top Highlights

“The word of God makes us change our concept of realism: the realist is the one who recognizes in the word of God the foundation of all things.” (source)

“‘being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a definitive direction’” (source)

“Here we can point to a fundamental criterion of biblical hermeneutics: the primary setting for scriptural interpretation is the life of the Church.” (source)

“‘The study of the sacred page should be, as it were, the very soul of theology’” (source)

“there can be no authentic understanding of Christian revelation apart from the activity of the Paraclete” (source)

Product Details

• Title: Verbum Domini
• Author: Benedict XVI
• Publisher: Libreria Editrice Vaticana
• Publication Date: 2010

About Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI was the 265th pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the Sovereign of the Vatican City State and the head of the Roman Catholic Church. He was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. A native of Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI has both German and Vatican citizenship.