Aquinas has a remarkable discussion of biblical hermeneutics. Actually, it may only be “remarkable” for us, that is, we moderns who prize the historico-critical approach to Sacred Scripture and thus ...

Most of us follow a pretty empirical approach to life – if something works, it works, and if it doesn’t, it doesn’t. We take our immediate environment at face value and most of us follow a common ...

At a time when political unrest, moral confusion, cultural divisions and immense upheaval dominate the headlines, Augustine ...

Contrary to the claims of some Protestant apologists (and not a few Catholics, for that matter), Catholics actually have a wide freedom to read and interpret the Bible (provided, of course, they read ...

James Barr, Semitist, biblical scholar, theologian and minister of the church: born Edinburgh 20 March 1924; ordained 1951 minister of the Church of Scotland; Professor of New Testament Literature and ...