5 The Place of the HCM in Catholic Exegesis from Providentissimus Deus to Divino Afflante Spiritu. Otherwise, it could not be said that He was the Author of the entire Scripture. 9. Pope Leo XIII's 1893 encyclical Providentissimus Deus is the first magisterial document on modern Catholic Biblical scholarship, and is absolutely crucial for interpreting later magisterial teaching, such as Vatican II's Dei Verbum. "(2) This belief has been perpetually held and professed by the Church in regard to the Books of both Testaments; and there are well-known documents of the gravest kind, coming down to us from the earliest times, which proclaim that God, Who spoke first by the Prophets, then by His own mouth, and lastly by the Apostles, composed also the Canonical Scriptures,(3) and that these are His own oracles and words(4) - a Letter, written by our heavenly Father, and transmitted by the sacred writers to the human race in its pilgrimage so far from its heavenly country. scholars for the encyclical Providentissimus Deus (lit., “The God of All Providence”) on the promotion of biblical studies, issued on Nov. 18, 1893.8 This letter, while exhibiting a cautious defensiveness against rationalism and while defending the inspiration and inerrancy of the biblical text, directed attention to a study of the “literal” sense of Scripture, and urged that professors be prepared for Catholic seminaries … "(19) St. Gregory the Great, than whom no one has more admirably described the pastoral office, writes in the same sense: "Those," he says, "who are zealous in the work of preaching must never cease the study of the written word of God. Providentissimus Deus, Dei Verbum, and the Inerrancy of Scripture In the combox on a prior post about the existence of Satan being debated on Nightline , a dust-up began about the inerrancy of scriptures that started to get a little personal. "(23) For the saving and for the perfection of ourselves and of others there is at hand the very best of help in the Holy Scriptures, as the Book of Psalms, among others, so constantly insists; but those only will find it who bring to this divine reading not only docility and attention, but also piety and an innocent life. [1], Catholic studies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries avoided the use of critical methodology because of its rationalist tendencies. Teaching (Wilmington, NC: McGrath, 1978); Providentissimus Deus is found on pp. He also addressed the issues of apparent contradictions between the Bible and physical science, or between one part of script… PROVIDENTISSIMUS DEUS On The Study Of Holy Scripture - Kindle edition by Leo XIII, Pope. 1. And as to the Church, her institutions, her nature, her office, and her gifts, we find in Holy Scripture so many references and so many ready and convincing arguments, that as St. Jerome again most truly says: "A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church. The principles here laid down will apply cognate sciences, and especially to History. "(63), 24. "(48) The sophisms of the enemy and his manifold arts of attack we have already touched upon. See the Collect on his feast, September 30. past., iii., 24 (al. 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