Listing/discussion of OT prophecies fulfilled in the NT - SANCTIONED by The Church?

[pierrefranz]

Hi, I’m curious about the situation of the view of Scripture as holy writ in the Church and among the laity. Pope Benedict and the Church itself display an integrated familiarity with academic scholarship on the Christian and Hebrew Scriptures and Catholic traditions of exegesis. I think of Pope Benedict’s “Jesus of Nazareth”, which I began recently but misplaced in a recent move - and works by the Pontifical Bible Commission I have been exposed to, encyclicals by several recent popes as well as the scholarship in the essays from the Catholic Study Bible I have. I am a little confused, though, by some lay Catholic discussion of Scripture I have found on the internet, for example listings of prophecies fulfilled by the coming of Jesus that seem to derive more from Protestant, english-language-based interpretation (“300 prophecies fulfilled”, etc, etc), than anything the Church itself has sanctioned. I would like to find a sanctioned, articulated, well-regarded listing, hopefully with discussion, of what the Church actually believes regarding Old Testament expectations that Jesus is held to have fulfilled as the Messiah. Does something like this exist? thanks! PF

 

[Esdra]

Hi, I’m curious about the situation of the view of Scripture as holy writ in the Church and among the laity. Pope Benedict and the Church itself display an integrated familiarity with academic scholarship on the Christian and Hebrew Scriptures and Catholic traditions of exegesis. I think of Pope Benedict’s “Jesus of Nazareth”, which I began recently but misplaced in a recent move - and works by the Pontifical Bible Commission I have been exposed to, encyclicals by several recent popes as well as the scholarship in the essays from the Catholic Study Bible I have. I am a little confused, though, by some lay Catholic discussion of Scripture I have found on the internet, for example listings of prophecies fulfilled by the coming of Jesus that seem to derive more from Protestant, english-language-based interpretation (“300 prophecies fulfilled”, etc, etc), than anything the Church itself has sanctioned. I would like to find a sanctioned, articulated, well-regarded listing, hopefully with discussion, of what the Church actually believes regarding Old Testament expectations that Jesus is held to have fulfilled as the Messiah. Does something like this exist? thanks! PF

Hi friend,

I think you’ve posted this thread in the wrong sub-forum.
Probably it would fit better into: Apologetics?