https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28127 2026-04-14T15:26:45Z 2026-04-14T15:26:45Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28226 2024-12-16T09:25:14Z 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The meaning of meaning and the meaning of revelation Abstract: It is being increasingly acknowledged that before beginning to discuss the special problems of what it means to explain the meaning of statements which purport to convey the Word of God, it is necessary to consider the general problems of what it means to explain the meaning of statements which do not purport to be anything more than human language. The recent history of Western culture has indeed made it next to impossible for anyone except the most ostrich-headed among those who care about the methods of interpreting the Word of God not to care about the methods of interpreting the word of man.

1974-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28225 2018-03-24T02:29:32Z 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: I generi letterari nella controversia cattolica Abstract: La questione dei generi letterari biblici e sorta neu'esegesi cattolica in reazione al movimento modemistico che suI finire del secolo scorso era penetrato nelle file cattoliche. La questione si trascino per un mezzo secolo tra sospetci e recriminazioni reciproche fino a quando non fu risolta posicivamente dall'enciclica autorevole Divino Afflante Spiritu di Pio XII (1943). E la famosa 'quescione biblica' di cui tanto si e scritto che non occorre riperterne la storia. Tuttavia, ricorrendo il quarantennio della pubblicazione dell'enciclica piana, che segna un traguardo storico nella questione, non sarebbe inutile rievocare le dif- ficolca principali inerenti al problema per sottolineare meglio la portata dei principi della DAS sia nella soluzione della controversia sia nel progresso registrato dai documenti ecclesiastici successivi.

1974-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28224 2018-03-24T02:29:38Z 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The specific contribution of Divino afflante Spiritu Abstract: When the Encyclical Letter Divino Afflante Spiritu appeared thirty years ago, it was welcomed with great pleasure and enthusiasm by all serious biblical scholars of that time. It has been considered - and still it is - as the 'magna Charta' of modem biblical studies in the Catholic Church. 'For Catholic exegesis', wrote Jean Levie, 'it is what Rerum Novarum was for the social question in 1981'. A quick glance backward to the Catholic biblical studies in the past thirty years will force the conclusion that in this field Pope Pius XII's Encyclical was really a very bright landmark and that its author deserves the title of 'patron of Catholic biblical studies'.

1974-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28218 2018-03-24T02:29:33Z 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The green light to renewal Abstract: There is no doubt in the mind of any Catholic theologian today, or even in the mind of most Catholic priests or laymen, that Vatican II has been a most important landmark in the history of the Church and has introduced a long-awaited renewal in every aspect of the Church's life. Some of the changes brought about during these past ten years have been much more deeply-rooted than they seem, coming as they do from a radical change in mentality and approach. There seems to be now a new atmosphere in the Church, a new vitality, a new hope and dynamism.

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