Jeremy Priest
Seminary
- I think the main feature of this study bible is the set of footnotes that show where various biblical passages are used in the worship of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church. To be able to click on these links and see how the passages are employed in liturgical texts would be tremendously valuable to me. The problem is that there are a few resources in the Verbum library to which these footnotes can link, but Verbum has very few official liturgical texts in its library. Hopefully, the acquisition of this resource in the Verbum library will lead to more official liturgical texts being added to the Verbum library of resources.
- I appreciated the places and the personal stories the author gives to the places and the objects he visits and highlights on his journeys, but I think his comments on many things are uninformed and uncharitable. It reminded me of C.S. Lewis' comment about his first book, The Pilgrim's Regress, on the occasion of the 3rd edition being published: "ON RE-READING THIS BOOK ten years after I wrote it, I find its chief faults to be those two which I myself least easily forgive in the books of other men: needless obscurity, and an uncharitable temper." (HarperOne, 2014, 231.) As Alan Jacobs' notes, "much of The Pilgrim's Regress is devoted to rejecting ideas Lewis really doesn't know much about—or elevating the importance of ones he does know" (The Narnian, 159). This evaluation could be applied to much of what I heard in this series.