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Letter & Spirit, vol. 2 (2006)

The Authority of Mystery:
The Word of God and the People of God  

Contributors

Editors’ Introduction  


Articles      

Vatican II on the Interpretation of Sacred Scripture
Avery Cardinal Dulles, S. J.  

Inspiration and Incarnation: 
The Christological Analogy and the Hermeneutics of Faith 
Mary Healy  

The Use of Scripture in the Catechism of the Catholic Church
John C. Cavadini  

Theologia Prima: The Liturgical Mystery and the Mystery of God
David Fagerberg

The Lord’s Prayer and the New Exodus
Brant Pitre

The Authority of Mystery:
The Biblical Theology of Pope Benedict XVI
Scott W. Hahn  


Notes  

“The Lord Will Accomplish His Word”:
Paul’s Argumentation and Use of Scripture in Romans 9:24–29
Father Pablo T. Gadenz  

A Liturgical Approach to Hebrews 13
James Swetnam, S. J.  


Tradition & Traditions

The Ladder from Earth to Heaven
Guigo II
(In a new translation by Jeremy Holmes)  

The Word, Scripture, and Tradition   
Hans Urs von Balthasar  

The Sacraments and the History of Salvation
Jean Cardinal Daniélou, S. J.

The Kingdom of God and the Heavenly-Earthly Church
Christoph Cardinal Schonborn, O. P.


Reviews & Notices  

	• Carol M. Kaminski, From Noah to Israel: Realization of the Primaeval Blessing after the Flood (London: T & T Clark, 2004)
	• Alice M. Sinnott, The Personification of Wisdom, Society for Old Testament Study Monographs (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005).
	• Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, Jesus’ Death in Early Christian Memory: The Poetics of the Passion, Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus 53 (Fribourg: Academic Press, 2004).
	• Jacob Neusner, How Important Was the Destruction of the Second Temple in the Formation of Rabbinic Judaism? (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2006)
	• Emmanuel Kaniyamparampil, The Spirit of Life: A Study of the Holy Spirit in the Early Syriac Tradition (Kerala, India: Oriental Institute of Religious Studies, 2003)
	• John J. O’Keefe and R. R. Reno, Sanctified Vision: An Introduction to Early Christian Interpretation of the Bible (Baltimore: John Hopkins University, 2005)
	• Kevin J. Vanhoozer, The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical Linguistic Approach to Christian Theology(Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2005)
	• Kevin J. Vanhoozer, gen. ed., Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible (Grand Rapids,MI: Baker, 2005)