By Louis Bouyer | Edited with an Introduction by Michael Heintz

The Bible and the Gospel expresses the unified nature of God’s revelation to mankind within the continuity of the history of Israel and the life of the Church. Eschewing both sterile historicism and gratuitous allegory, Bouyer provides an illuminating initiation to reading of the Old and the New Testaments. For this new edition, Michael Heintz has revised the original English translation, added the previously untranslated Preface, written numer­ous editorial annotations, and contributed an Introduction that illuminates Bouyer and his theological vision.

To paraphrase St. Jerome, “Knowledge of Scripture is knowledge of Christ.” With Bouyer as their trustworthy guide, readers can become rich in that knowledge. Equally erudite and accessible, The Bible and the Gospel is the perfect gift for students and scholars, preachers and parishioners, and anyone who seeks to know and love the Word of God.

What allows us to achieve this properly religious understanding of the Scriptures is a contemplation of the great design set forth in them and of the One whose face is found therein. (Louis Bouyer)

Louis Bouyer (1913–2004) was a member of the French Oratory and one of the most respected and visionary Catholic scholars and theologians of his time. Formerly a Lutheran minister, Bouyer entered the Catholic Church in 1939. A prolific author, he wrote over fifty works, including Christian Initiation, Liturgical Piety, and Rite and Man—also available from Cluny.

Michael Heintz is a priest of the Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend, Indiana, currently serving as academic dean and associate professor of historical and systematic theology at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

Paperback: 354pp.

ISBN: 978-1949899511