Dr. James Hitchcock
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Dei Verbum: The Divine Authority of Scripture vs. the “Hermeneutic of Suspicion”
The impression that the Second Vatican Council marked a radical break with the Catholic past is a cliché that dies hard. It is kept alive, ironically, both by liberals who wish it were so, and by certain traditionalists with an interest in minimizing, if not altogether discrediting, the Council’s authority.
Thus, if asked, most Catholics would probably say that the Council gave wholesale approval to modern biblical scholarship and justified for Catholics the “demythologizing” approach to the Bible that has long been in use among liberal Protestants. Some Catholics -- even some bishops -- never tire of insisting that “Catholics are not fundamentalists”.
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James Hitchcock is professor of history at St. Louis University. He is also a respected author and lecturer who writes a regular column for the diocesan press focusing on current events in the Church and in the world. 'Up Periscope' copyright © Dr. James Hitchcock. All rights reserved.
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