How Catholics Encounter the Bible by Peppard, Michael

How Catholics Encounter the Bible

Slip into a pew at a Catholic church almost anywhere in the world on a Sunday morning,...
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Author: Michael Peppard
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Language: English
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How Catholics Encounter the Bible by Peppard, Michael

How Catholics Encounter the Bible

BD$83.44

How Catholics Encounter the Bible

BD$83.44
Author: Michael Peppard
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Slip into a pew at a Catholic church almost anywhere in the world on a Sunday morning, and you'll likely find something missing: the Bible. More than five hundred years after the Bible came off the first printing press, why does the world's largest biblical religion often not have a printed Bible in the room? And if not, how is it that the life of Catholics is shaped by the Bible?

In How Catholics Encounter the Bible, award-winning biblical scholar and historian Michael Peppard explores the paradoxical role of the Bible for Catholics--a book central to their tradition, but not usually in the form of a book. Biblical ideas and beliefs are more often mediated through diverse modes of storytelling, artistic imagination, and ritual. Peppard begins from the conviction that the Bible, for Catholics, is not bound with leather book covers, but with the liturgical binding of the sign of the cross, the wrought-metal framing of a stained-glass window, or the lyrical structures of a God-haunted poet. He thus de-emphasizes the act of private, individual reading and instead analyzes distinctively Catholic approaches to the Bible through ritual, literature, the arts, and ethics. Primary among these encounters are the Mass and events of the life cycle, but Peppard also presents the Catholic Bible through the art of ancient Rome, pilgrimage in modern Mexico, the poetry of medieval mystics, and even contemporary American fiction. Through these curated highlights, the reader will see how the Bible thrives among Catholics, even if its printed text may be missing.

Author: Michael Peppard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 12/02/2024
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780190948696

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