What strikes me most about this particular page is its tension. You can feel the author trying to write with the certitude of the 1950s while the windows of the 1960s are blowing open. The language is still scholastic, dense, and Latinized. But the subject is dynamic: Revelation as an encounter with a Person, not just an assent to a fact.
If you have a set of the 1967 New Catholic Encyclopedia gathering dust in a rectory library or a university stacks, do not treat it as obsolete. It is a photograph of the Church’s mind exactly 59 years ago—trying to articulate ancient truths in a language that had just been told it was allowed to breathe again. new catholic encyclopedia -1967- volume 14 page 299
It reminds us that revelation isn't just something that happened 2,000 years ago. It is something happening on page 299 , every time we read with fresh eyes. What strikes me most about this particular page
Today, I opened Volume 14: Pope to Revelation . And I turned specifically to page 299. But the subject is dynamic: Revelation as an
