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“firmly, faithfully and without error,
teach that truth which God, for
the sake of our salvation, wished
to see confided”: 30
God as author: 26-27, 31-32
God’s words as put into human
words: 26-27, 31-32
Gospels as holding a place of honor
in: 26
Gospels, formation of: 26
historical reductionism: 30-31
Holy Spirit as inspiring: 26-27, 31
inspiration in: 27-28, 31-32
as insufficient, authoritative
teaching as also needed: 30
interpreting: 28-33
authoritative interpretation as
entrusted to Magisterium: 28, 32
exegesis of: 27
literal sense: 29-30
the need to be attentive to what
God wanted to reveal for our
salvation: 27
spiritual senses: allegorical,
moral, and analogical: 28
unacceptable assumptions found
in some forms of scriptural
interpretation: 31
as united whole with Jesus as the
center: 27
literalism, Biblical: 29-30
literary forms employed: 27, 30,
55-56, 61
meditation, as aid for: 473-74
prayer, role in: 464, 473-74, 477-78
prayer, sources of: 478
reductionist readings, deficiencies
of: 30-31
as revealing relationship between
God and his people as a dialogue
of prayer: 464, 478
as revealing what God wants to
make known for the sake of our
salvation: 30, 61
Revelation, as transmitting: 18, 23,
30-32
“scripture scholars”: 27
senses of: 27-28,
527-28
and Tradition: 18, 30, 32, 39,
132, 332
truth, as teaching divine and
saving: 32
as united whole with Jesus as the
center: 27
as unity of Old and New
Testaments: 24, 32
veneration of: 24, 29, 32-33
the Word of God in: 23-28, 30, 32
see also Gospel; New Testament;
Old Testament
Scrutinies:
191,
527
Seal
Baptismal: 138, 194-95, 198
in Confirmation: 103, 203, 205,
207, 210
of the Father placed upon the work
of his Son: 95
in Holy Orders: 269
the Holy Spirit as the: 107
sacramental seal of confession: 241
see also Sacramental character
Search for God:
3, 6-7, 109, 271-72,
464, 478
Second Vatican Council:
21-23
deepening the understanding of
doctrine: 22
discovering ways of teaching the
faith more effectively: 21-22
as influenced by its immediate past:
22-23
seeking unity within the Church: 22
using “medicine of mercy”: 22
see also
specific topics
Secular institutes:
see Evangelical counsels
Secularism; secular culture:
16, 43,
106, 344
challenges posed to the Church
by: 16
faith, response of: 43
modern society, influence in: 43
morality, effects on: 453-54
stewardship, effects on: 453
see also
specific topics,
e.g., Marriage