Use and Abuse of the Bible

Henry Wansbrough OSB is a Benedictine Monk of Ampleforth, former Chairman of the Oxford University Theology Faculty and former Master of St Benet's Hall. He is a member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and Executive Secretary of ICPEL (The International Commission for Producing an English-language Lectionary). He lectures frequently across the globe including being Guest Lecturer in Scripture at Harare University, Zimbabwe.

• Foreword: Which Bible? What is the Bible?1. The First Century: The Interpretation of the Old Testament in the New2. The Second Century: Melito and Irenaeus 3. The Third Century: Origen 4. The Fourth Century: Jerome 5. The Dark Ages: Bede and the Bible 6. The High Middle Ages: Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Aquinas 7. Two Norfolk Ladies: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe8. Martin Luther 9. The Bible in the Politics of Early Seventeenth Century England 10. John and Charles Wesley11. Newman 12. The Bible and the State of Israel13. Lectio DivinaBibliographyTimeline

'Out of his remarkable experience of the Bible as translator, theologian and monk, Henry Wansbrough has provided a brilliantly readable and attractive introduction to the understanding of the Bible from the New Testament itself to its use in the present state of Israel' Benedicta Ward SLG, Reader in Christian Spirituality, University of Oxford, UK