{"id":6692,"date":"2008-06-16T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/vatican_knocks_fundamental_literal_reading_of_the_bible\/"},"modified":"2008-06-16T04:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T04:24:00","slug":"vatican_knocks_fundamental_literal_reading_of_the_bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6692","title":{"rendered":"Vatican knocks fundamental, literal reading of the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tendency to read the Bible through the lens of &#8220;fundamentalism&#8221; threatens to undermine Catholics&#8217; understanding of Scripture, the Vatican said Thursday (June 12).<\/p>\n<p>The statement appears in the agenda for the next general assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which will bring prelates to Rome in October to consider the &#8220;importance of the Word of God in the life and mission of the Church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 86-page document released Thursday emphasizes the need to increase Catholics&#8217; knowledge and understanding of Scripture. While encouraging the faithful to read the Bible either alone or in study groups, it stresses that all interpretation must be in light of church teaching.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pewforum.org\/news\/display.php?NewsID=15815&#038;IssueID=128\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tendency to read the Bible through the lens of &#8220;fundamentalism&#8221; threatens to undermine Catholics&#8217; understanding of Scripture, the Vatican said Thursday (June 12). The statement appears in the agenda for the next general assembly of the Synod of Bishops,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6692\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,154,364,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}