READING SCRIPTURE “IN THE SPIRIT”
Discovering the Spiritual Sense in an Age of Critical Exegesis

This program will revitalize and deepen the listener’s love for the Sacred Scriptures. For forty years priests, deacons, and seminarians have been taught the historical critical approach to studying the Scriptures. This scholarly method has proven invaluable to the proper understanding of the Word of God. However, the rich “spiritual” sense of Scriptures that was so favored by the Fathers of the Church, great preacher of the past and the mystics has been neglected.

Dr. Healy shows how the composition of the lectionary is based on a spiritual interpretation of the Old Testament and how understanding this spiritual sense is essential to helping the listener to the Word of God to be inspired and uplifted. This approach will prove indispensable to the preachers of the Word and riveting to the hearers of the Word. The poetry and the power of the word of God comes alive in this informative presentation that is meant to instill in all lovers of the Bible a deeper intimacy with the living Word of God, the logos, the Christ. Dr. Healy skillfully fuses together the history of salvation in Hebrew Scriptures with the culmination of that history as spiritually understood in the New Testament.

The interpretation of the Scriptures ultimate meaning is reserved to the Church and the historical critical method is indispensable in preventing the religious imagination from running wild. Nevertheless, only a person who is truly looking for the inspiration that comes from the Holy Spirit can truly unlock the mean-plummet the depth and meaning of the Scared Scriptures.