RADIO VATICANA REPORT: Second volume of Jesus of Nazareth to be released next week
The second volume of Pope Benedict XVI’s book series, Jesus of Nazareth will be released next week. The work will cover the Holy Week period from Jesus' entry into Jerusalem to the Resurrection. The book looks at much of the scholarship on this period of the life of Jesus, and the Holy Father has said people are free to disagree with his views on these scholarly debates.
“It’s a matter of some controversy,” says Catholic author and editor Amy Welborn. “There are people who think a Pope shouldn’t be doing things like this, that he should set his personal scholarly interest aside.” She disagrees.
“I think the Holy Father trusts us, and trusts the Church, to be able to discern the difference between magisterial pronouncements…and theological and scholarly efforts,” she told Vatican Radio.
“He is using this moment to help re-situate the relationship of scholarship, both scripture scholarship and theology, to the community of faith...that is the focus of his work, which is to bring the reader, whether that reader be already in the Church whether they be outside the Church, to a closer relationship with Christ, using the tools of contemporary scholarship and theology in the way that they should be, which is, as he points out, as a service to the truth.”
The second volume of Pope Benedict XVI’s book series, Jesus of Nazareth will be released next week. The work will cover the Holy Week period from Jesus' entry into Jerusalem to the Resurrection. The book looks at much of the scholarship on this period of the life of Jesus, and the Holy Father has said people are free to disagree with his views on these scholarly debates.“It’s a matter of some controversy,” says Catholic author and editor Amy Welborn. “There are people who think a Pope shouldn’t be doing things like this, that he should set his personal scholarly interest aside.” She disagrees.
“I think the Holy Father trusts us, and trusts the Church, to be able to discern the difference between magisterial pronouncements…and theological and scholarly efforts,” she told Vatican Radio.
“He is using this moment to help re-situate the relationship of scholarship, both scripture scholarship and theology, to the community of faith...that is the focus of his work, which is to bring the reader, whether that reader be already in the Church whether they be outside the Church, to a closer relationship with Christ, using the tools of contemporary scholarship and theology in the way that they should be, which is, as he points out, as a service to the truth.”
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