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Faith and Reality: Two Major Works of Biblical Theology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Cornelius Ernst O.P.
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It is generally admitted that the Catholic Church is distinguished by an insistence on the reality of the objects of her faith. For those who are in one way or another alienated from the Church this realism often appears unenlightened and superstitious, a kind of primitive surrender to the principalities and powers of a magical world which lies behind and yet permeates the world of everyday, and heightens its common-sense obviousness by charging it with a mana derived from supposed agencies like, but more powerful than, the agencies and objects of the tangible world. Within the Church this sense of the reality of the object of faith has; become incorporated in devotions of many kinds, and also in a metaphysical theology. It would be interesting to examine in some detail the various forms taken by this incorporation of a living and sensitive faith, stretching out to touch and handle its objects

Type
Research Article
Information
Life of the Spirit , Volume 16 , Issue 181 , July 1961 , pp. 3 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © 1961 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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References

1 The Christology of the New Testament. (S.C.M. Press; 42s.)

2 F. X. Durrwell: The Resurrection. Translated by Rosemary Sheed, with an Introduction by Charles Davis. (Sheed and Ward; 30s.)

3 He has been extremely well served by his translator. I should Eke, however, to register my disagreement with the policy of replacing the transliterated Greek of the original by an English word (e.g. ‘spirit’ often for pneuma - and here Fr Durrwell's use of capital and small letters, ‘Esprit’ and ‘esprit’ has often not been followed). It also seems unfortunate that the Douai version has been followed even when Fr Durrwell's version is required by his exegesis. This may be due to censorship regulations: it is still unfortunate.