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Written by Matthew van Duyvenbode
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Sunday, 08 January 2012 09:31 |
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 Matthew van Duyvenbode works as part of the Bible and Culture team at Bible Society (www.biblesociety.org.uk/culture). He is a trustee of the Catholic Bible School, and is secretary to the Scripture working group under the Department for Evangelisation and Catechesis at the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.
As we approach the 50th anniversary of Dei Verbum in 2015, we are presented with a valuable opportunity to reflect on our response to the scriptural renewal it both noted and encouraged within the life and mission of the Church. The impact of increased scriptural engagement in the life of the faithful over the intervening years has widely been caricatured as a swing to liturgical liberality, followed by a traditionalist reaction. Whist the analysis is somewhat crude and misleading, it is interesting to note that popular comment has primarily concerned itself with assessing the use and interpretation of the Bible ad intra.
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