tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post716187218812932684..comments2023-09-22T06:56:46.508-05:00Comments on Adoro te Devote: Verbum DominiAdorohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-90221489661406199382010-11-17T10:14:11.924-06:002010-11-17T10:14:11.924-06:00That's exactly it. I do encourage you to look ...That's exactly it. I do encourage you to look up the names I mentioned. They've got incredible stuff!<br /><br />And sadly, the protestant scholars are much more Catholic in their scholarship than are those who claim to be Catholic.<br /><br />Even today, even in CATHOLIC institutions (at least in the US), the university publishers won't tolerate any criticism of Luther. It's outright scandalous. Try to refute what Luther said, even using his own words, and the publishers will refuse to put it to print!<br /><br />(One of our professors was going through that problem because of what he said in the intro of some works he translated.)Adorohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-55427528906270944382010-11-17T09:27:02.455-06:002010-11-17T09:27:02.455-06:00"an entire generation of Catholic scholars th..."an entire generation of Catholic scholars that has been ignored by academia"...<br /><br />While studying for a degree in Theology at a (very eminent) secular university, I never heard any of the names you list so much as mentioned.<br /><br />Even Fitzmyer and Brown were regarded as a bit marginal. There was almost a sense in some circles that only German Lutherans could be taken seriously.<br /><br />Protestant scholarship set the agenda. Catholics accepted it - they had to accept it if they wanted to be taken seriously by their peers in academia.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15285355080459130149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-81493100221621205332010-11-17T09:02:49.270-06:002010-11-17T09:02:49.270-06:00Mark ~ Actually, there's an entire generation ...Mark ~ Actually, there's an entire generation of Catholic scholars that has been ignored by academia, and they pre-date Scott Hahn! I'm thinking of scholars we studied, such as Feullet, Miguens, Farkasfalvy and others. Although Hahn is an influence on some, I really don't think he has had much at all to do with Catholic biblical scholarship outside of the popular apologetics arena. Of course, I like him but we did not even look at his stuff in our scripture courses. Part of the reason is this: the scholars I named often took on the "giants" such as Fitzmyer, Brown, Bultmann, outright revealing the shoddy work those guys did in the name of "scholarship".Adorohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-63844629549791028372010-11-17T01:02:57.490-06:002010-11-17T01:02:57.490-06:00It's a wonderfully Patristic document.
As yo...It's a wonderfully Patristic document. <br /><br />As you say, Jerome is always there in the background. <br /><br />As regards the state of scriptural scholarship, a new generation of young Catholic scholars who are both orthodox and fully trained in all the relevant academic disciplines is beginning to emerge. <br /><br />I suspect that many of them have read Scott Hahn's strictly academic work and come to the shocking realization that, yes, you can be a proper (in the academic sense) New Testament theologian AND an orthodox Catholic at the same time. <br /><br />Against this background Pope Benedict has produced his zeitgeist-changing "Jesus of Nazareth" book (with more volumes to come) and now Verbum Domini. <br /><br />Bloggers who are interested primarily in liturgy haven't fully picked up on this, but what Benedict is doing in terms of reinvigorating the Church's understanding of Scripture is absolutely massive.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15285355080459130149noreply@blogger.com