Review: 'The Word of God at Vatican II' Part II | National Catholic Reporter

Review: 'The Word of God at Vatican II' Part II | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: It is good that Fr. Witherup gave a paragraph by paragraph history - such a history prevents revisionism by those seeking a different ruberic than actually happened. That the document is meant to be for evangelization rather than policing theologians is a nice thought, but only experience can judge its practice.  The next chapters speak of the salvation dynamo.  One wonders if the salvation history of revelation is still going on?  From what I understand, there are some who think so and they may not wear Roman collars or red and purple cassocks.  He then describes the types of inspriation (buy the book to read his chart), which he calls a pilgrim journey - meaning it is not static but is continuing.  He also takes up the question of scripture v. tradition and the role of preservation in transmitting tradition, however there are growth in insight.  An epsitomologist would say that each Church has to own a doctrine or it dies, which means change is inevitable as well.  The author goes on that God is the source of revelation (using tradition and scripture).  Also interesting is the tension between scripture and tradition and the Magisterium.  It is noted that the Church never says that any scripture can only mean certain things, and has only spoken to say what it cannot mean.  Of course, at this very moment, new translations of scripture were taking place.  The point is that the Holy Spirit is still speaking, and that we need to keep listening (to Her).