*SCRIPTURE - WORD, REVELATION
Buddhism - Theravada, Diamond Sutra
Christinity - Books of the Bible, Apocrypha, Gnosticism (Nag Hammadi library)
Confucianism - The Five Classics, The Four Books
Hinduism - Vedas, Bhagavad Gita, Brahmanas, Aranyakas, Upanishads, In Vedanta (Uttar Mimamsa) Brahma Sutras of Vyasa
In Yoga - Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
New Age - A Course in Miracles, Conversations with God, Oahspe, Gnostic Gospels, The Urantia Book
Scripture is valuable for teaching and correction. ( )
Ignorance of Scriptures is ignorance of Christ. (St. Jerome)
For whatever was written previously was written for our instruction, that by endurance and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope. (Rom 15:4)
GOD'S WORD - SCRIPTURE - DIVINE REVELATION ITSELF
Spoken through the prophets
Jesus completed and perfected Revelation
End of divine revelation was with the last apostle
Inerrant in terms of faith and morals (but not w/ history)
Transmission of divine revelation is by Scripture and Tradition (Church)
SCRIPTURE: ITS DIVINE INSPIRITION AND INTERPRETATION
God speaks through man's character and limits
Exegesis ‑ writers intent (is God's intent).
Need to take into account the following:
‑ literary form
‑ historical
‑ canonial context (must look at things in the whole)
‑ bible is also fully human AND fully divine
Should look at OT in relation to NT (Jesus)
Gospels are central
Writers wrote for a particular community in mind
Is historically based ‑ writers look back with faith
ROLE OF SCRIPTURE IN THE CHURCH
Nourished or rules by the church
Scripture should be the basis for all teaching and theology
Translations 1. NAB 2. RSV
Prayer should accompany reading
It was written w/ prayer and should be understood with prayer
Economy of Salvation (Salvation HIstory) ‑ Abraham to Jesus. (DeiVerbum)