Brief Overview The apostles and New Testament writers overwhelmingly quoted from the Septuagint, the Greek Old Testament that contained the deuterocanonical books Protestants later removed. Roughly 300 of…
Brief Overview Christians around the world use Bibles containing 66, 73, 78, or even 81 books, and most believers in each tradition have no idea that other canons…
Brief Overview Martin Luther removed seven Old Testament books from the Protestant Bible not because they lacked ancient support but because they contradicted his new doctrines. The deuterocanonical…
Brief Overview The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church preserves a biblical canon of 81 books, far exceeding the 66 books found in Protestant Bibles and even surpassing the 73…
Brief Overview The Catholic Church formally defined the biblical canon at a series of councils in the late fourth century, giving Christianity the list of books every Bible…
Brief Overview Lectio divina is a four-stage method of praying with Scripture that the Church has practiced since the early centuries, and the Catechism explicitly names it as…
Brief Overview The Catholic Church definitively teaches that the Bible is inspired by God and free from error in everything it affirms for the sake of human salvation,…
Brief Overview The Catholic Church makes a clear theological distinction between the ancient people of God described in Scripture and the modern political state of Israel founded in…
Brief Overview A UK political leader recently shared that she rejected God after realizing her prayers for trivial things were answered while someone suffering in captivity for decades…
Brief Overview Catholics and Protestants read the same Bible but often arrive at different understandings of Mary’s role in salvation history. The angel Gabriel addressed Mary as “full…
