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Know Your Enemy... The Deceiving ¨Historical-Critical Method¨ Politicizing the Bible | Scott Hahn. This lecture will be useful for you if you don't have time to read the book! Hahn and Wiker’s book …More
Know Your Enemy... The Deceiving ¨Historical-Critical Method¨

Politicizing the Bible | Scott Hahn.
This lecture will be useful for you if you don't have time to read the book!
Hahn and Wiker’s book is saying that the so-called “historical-critical method” is neither neutral nor objective but “a method largely defined by some prior philosophical commitment.”

And those prior philosophical commitments generally involve political, secular goals, which seems in the authors’ view to involve misusing Scripture by ignoring its ecclesial, heavenly purpose of the salvation of souls.

With regard to the title of their work, Hahn and Wiker write: Our argument, to put it all too simply, is that the development of the historical-critical method in biblical studies is only fully intelligible as part of the more comprehensive project of secularization that occurred in the West, and that the politicizing of the Bible was, in one way or another, essential to this project. By politicization, we mean the intentional exegetical reinterpretation of Scripture so as to make it serve a merely political, this-worldly (hence secular) goal. Since this effort was largely undertaken by those who embraced a new secular worldview, the effect was to subordinate the method of interpreting Scripture to secular political aims.

The presuppositions of the historical-critical method that drive the goal of political secularization are (1) “the bias against the supernatural” and (2) “the notion that the core of Christianity is moral rather than dogmatic”, and most of the book shows how those presuppositions became deliberately ingrained in biblical studies to serve secular ends.
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Looks like a good talk
Muriel Kinsella
I recently bought the book so this talk is extremely helpful. Adrien, your summary is also very helpful
Adrien
Thank you Muriel Kinsella ! 😇
I wrote many articles in my life but there's no way I did the smart parts of that one, my English isn't that good!
I like Scott Hahn very much but there is always this important thing to know about doctors coming from Protestantism and nearly all Catholic scholars for that matter.
They don't accept the simple but necessary rank of God's servants in His Church...
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Thank you Muriel Kinsella ! 😇

I wrote many articles in my life but there's no way I did the smart parts of that one, my English isn't that good!
I like Scott Hahn very much but there is always this important thing to know about doctors coming from Protestantism and nearly all Catholic scholars for that matter.

They don't accept the simple but necessary rank of God's servants in His Church...

1 Corinthians 12:28 In the Church God has put all in place: in the first place Apostles, in the second place Prophets, and in the third place Doctors; then those who perform miracles, followed by those who are given the power to heal or to help others or to direct them or to speak in strange tongues.

Prophets are above doctors and teachers.

Scholars to prophets:

- We don't need you.

- We have the Bible and the Magisterium.

- Well it is true that despite that, the World hasn't converted but..uh.. he will if everyone reads our books of theology!

-If ever your are approved by Rome we may acknowledge that you exist... that doesn't mean we will listen to you.

-Even if you get the approbation, it could take time... you might be then in Heaven...
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We have always many prophets in the Church. Today more than ever. It can't be otherwise because:

Amos 3:7 Indeed the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

Finally about the healers in 1 Corinthians 12:28 according to the word of our Lord Jesus-Christ to don Ottavio Michelini, every priest receive the power to heal the sick and to cast out demons just by his ordination.

Of course a gift can be lost if by committing a mortal sin we let Satan enter and reign in our soul... For instance, many priests can't perform an exorcism successfully and shouldn't even attempt one.

God bless you!
Muriel Kinsella
God Bless you too!