Who should read the Bible? What is the biblical
word? How is Scripture to be interpreted? How is it to be prayed and lived? How
does Scripture call forth the Church's entire life and mission? In October 2008
the Synod on the Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church took place in
Rome.
During the synod the bishops addressed these
questions on the significance of the Word in the life and mission of the church.
Beginning with a helpful explanation of the synod process, James Chukwuma Okoye,
CSSp, follows the synod in historical progression, highlighting important topics
and issues along the way and concluding with an exposition of the post-synodal
apostolic exhortation Verbum Domini, which Benedict XVI signed on September 30,
2010. Okoye emphasizes that the Synod on the Word of God was not just about
Scriptures function in the pastoral life of the church but it was also about
tradition and God s continuing self-disclosure in history and in the religions
and cultures of humankind.
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