CORE1010 Lecture 2: Theology lecture 2
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Scripture: bible as the word of god tradition: teachings of the church fathers. Sacred tradition and sacred scripture form one sacred deposit of the word of god, committed to the church (dei verbum 10) Prior to the discovery of the dead sea scrolls, the oldest extant copies of the bible/ot were the codex sinaticus and the codex vaticanus. *the ot is a collection of books with different genres of literature: genealogies, law, The idea of a complete and clear-cut canon of the new testament existing from the beginning, that is from apostolic times, has no foundation in history. The old testament is a great treasure chest in which a wealth of truth about god lies waiting for us to discover it. No christian can fully understand the new testament revelation of god if he or she has not seen a glimpse of that wealth. It is wonderfully expressed by the saying of.
