While it is true that today's civilization presents all sorts of questions about which the Bible had nothing to say directly, in many instances there are ...

Father John L. McKenzie (1910-1991), an Old Testament biblical scholar who taught at Loyola University of Chicago, University of Chicago, Notre Dame and ...

From the beginning of the New Testament era, there have been disputes over what individual passages meant, who wrote them, when they were written, and ...

The present collection of essays, selected by a priest-teacher and laywoman-student at Loyola University, brings together wide-ranging, mind-opening, and ...

"The key to understanding the Gospels," says Father McKenzie, "is to read them carefully and inquisitively, then reread them, and reread them..." Perhaps ...

Moving from Genesis through the Hebrew prophets, McKenzie has produced a moving picture of Hebrew religion produced by divine revelation. Throughout the ...

In many of his books, John L. McKenzie has confined himself to the exposition of one theme. Here is a chance to encounter his thinking on a wide variety ...

While, for many, the old and destructive controversy as to whether the Bible is to be taken literally has long since been resolved, modern research and ...

The question of authority has always been a lively issue within the Roman Catholic Church. While some have warned against the danger of ""democratizing"" ...

""In the composition of this book I experienced a growing conviction that the thing with which we believe we are familiar is not the New Testament; it ...