this blog, it occurred to me posting something on what I was just commenting today to my Pentateuch students. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI while talking to a group of seminarians in Freiburg, emphasized the importance of hard studying. He referred to it as “something essential”. As a teacher like him and as a biblical student I totally agree with the Holy Father’s remark. Additionally, in this speech he emphasized on the centrality of faith in order to give meaning to everything the human being does. What I like most here is that Pope Benedict encouraged these students to appreciate how “important is to be informed and to understand, to have an open mind, to learn.”

The key to extract the meaning of those texts relies in
their "historical-literary context studied within a Christian perspective". The
light of the mystery of Christ should be then the hermeneutical key to approach
these perplexing readings (VD, 42). It is in this sense that the critical analysis of these texts becomes
essential, since as the Emeritus Pope warns, “we know that tomorrow someone
else will have something else to say.” Ignoring
our students’ questions or trying to sugarcoat things for them does not help
them to find the way to the truth and exposes them to the threats of
unjustified criticism of their faith.
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