Letter & Spirit Vol. 5: Liturgy and Empire: Faith in Exile and Political Theology makes accessible to clergy, students, and laity the finest Catholic biblical scholarship.

This volume includes:

Articles:

• “Liturgy and Empire: Prophetic Historiography and Faith in Exile in 1-2 Chronicles” by Scott W. Hahn
• “Cultic Kingdoms in Conflict in the Book of Daniel” by John Bergsma
• “Worship in the Spirit of Logos: Romans 12:1-2 and the Source and Summit of Christian Life” by Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B.
• “A Liturgical Conversion of the Imagination: Worship and Ethics in 1 Corinthians” by Rodrigo J. Morales
• “Jesus, the Messianic Banquet, and the Kingdom of God” by Brant Pitre
• “Charity and Empire: Is Trinitarian Monotheism Violent?”by Matthew Levering

Notes:

• “Biblical Interpretation and Theology: Irenaeus, Modernity,and Vatican II” by Robert Barron
• “Liturgy, Social Justice, and the Mystical Body of Christ: The Vision of Virgil Michel” by David W. Fagerberg

Traditions:

• “Lectures on 2 Thessalonians: A New Translation” by St. Thomas Aquinas, trans. Jeremy Holmes
• “The Two Economies of Divine Government: Satan and Christ in the New Testament and Early Christian Tradition” by Louis Bouyer
• “The Morality of Exile: Biblical Aspects of the Theme of Faith and Politics” by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger/ Pope Benedict XVI

Letter & Spirit seeks to foster a deeper conversation about the Bible. This journal of biblical theology, published in collaboration with Scott Hahn and the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, takes a crucial step toward recovering the fundamental link between the literary and historical study of Scripture and its religious and spiritual meaning in the Church’s liturgy and Tradition.