Reading Genesis with Cardinal Ratzinger
Reading Genesis with Cardinal Ratzinger, by Reverend Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P.
As Cardinal Ratzinger [now Benedict XVI] has convincingly argued, in the case of the Hexaemeron, we have to depart from a reading that is limited to the literalist sense because studies of ancient texts and ancient cultures … have given us good and necessary reasons for doing so. Sticking to a literalist reading of Genesis would do violence to the original meaning of the human author and thus to the truth God wanted to manifest through his words…
(The Hexaemeron is a term for the Bible’s six-day account of creation.)
(Hat Tip: Ignatius Insight)