Book recommendation - scriptural support for Catholic teaching/doctrine

[dch1983]

Can anyone recommend a good book that covers scriptural support for Catholic teaching and Catholic doctrine? I know there are multiple texts out there, but, if possible, I would prefer to get one that has been suggested to me rather than just making a guess.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

 

[quasimodo]

Can anyone recommend a good book that covers scriptural support for Catholic teaching and Catholic doctrine? I know there are multiple texts out there, but, if possible, I would prefer to get one that has been suggested to me rather than just making a guess.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

I have not read it, but someone I trust quite a bit says this is good

 

[awalt]

There are probably more direct footnotes into the Bible for Church teaching in the Catechism of the Catholic Church than any book I have ever read. Other footnotes cite other Church documents, most of which are online and you can further trace to their Scriptural basis where there is some. In some cases, footnotes will be based on councils or documents derived from Tradition and will not directly be found in the Bible, but I would surely start with the CCC.

 

[Nita]

My favorite is “Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma” by Dr. Ludwig Ott, published by Tan. States the dogma, gives brief history of heresies that “forced” the Church into defining the dogma, gives Scripture that supports the dogma and cites early Church father that support it.

Another book is titled “Bible Basics” by Steve Kellmeyer and is published by Basilica Press, Steubenville.

Nita

 

[Rolltide]

The citations in the still-incomplete Ignatius Study Bible are excellent.

 

[v1gilbert]

Definitely go with both the Catechism and Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by Dr. Ludwig Ott.

Reading through the Sacraments section on Fundamentals was the last tiny hurdle regarding my conversion to the Faith. Six of the seven are all explicitly found in Sacred Scripture, the only exception being Marriage? Luckily St. Paul and Jesus state enough about the sanctity of Marriage that I don’t doubt or even have a difficultly on the validity of Marriage as a Sacrament.

 

[dch1983]

Excellent! Thanks! Recommendations hold a lot of weight in my book… (pardon the lame pun)

 

[jemfinch]

Six of the seven [sacraments] are all explicitly found in Sacred Scripture, the only exception being Marriage?

When Paul says that “this is a great mystery, and I’m saying it applies to Christ and the Church” he’s calling Marriage a sacrament. Sacramentum is just the Latin translation of the Greek mysterion.

Jeremy