Opening Up the Scriptures: Joseph Ratzinger and the Foundations of Biblical Interpretation (Ressourcement: Retrieval and Renewal in Catholic Thought | RRRCT)
Overview
Opening Up the Scriptures was written by a group of eminent Catholics, among them Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger—now Pope Benedict XVI. In these erudite essays, the authors contend that historical-critical interpretation of Scripture has long since run its course in both Protestant and Catholic exegesis. Instead, they argue, the future of interpretation lies in accepting that the Bible is not just a collection of historical documents but also a record of revelation conceived in faith. By this token, true exegesis involves the faith and humility of the exegete.
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Top Highlights
“‘Faith is the correlative cognitive attitude to the Word of God’” (Page 53)
“The real philosophical presupposition behind the whole enterprise seems to me to lie in the Kantian turn. According to Kant, man cannot perceive the voice of being in itself; he can hear it only indirectly, in the postulates of practical reason, which remain so to say as the last narrow slit through which contact with the really real, with his eternal destiny, can still reach him.” (Page 18)
“Luther replaced the analogical model that had been accepted until his day with a dialectical structure. Perhaps we could even say that Luther’s shift is the real gulf separating ancient from modern exegesis.” (Page 15)
“Modern exegesis sees things in terms of the following dilemma: either interpretation is done critically or it is done by authority, but not both at the same time.” (Page 6)
“The first presupposition of all exegesis is that it takes the Bible as one book” (Page 29)
- Title: Opening Up the Scriptures: Joseph Ratzinger and the Foundations of Biblical Interpretation
- Editors: José Granados, Carlos Granados, and Luis Sanchez-Navarro
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Publication Date: 2008
- Pages: 174
José Granados is an assistant professor of theology at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America.
Carlos Granados holds a doctorate in sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.
Luis Sanchez-Navarro is a professor of New Testament studies at the San Damaso Theological School in Madrid.