Class Texts for Lecture One

Christianity is not, properly speaking, 'a religion of the book.' It is a religion of the Word, but not uniquely or principally of 'the Word' in either its written or even oral form. It is the religion of the Word, "not of a mute, written word," says St. Bernard, "but of a Word incarnated and living."

Henri de Lubac, tr. Peter Casarella, "Commentaire du preamble et du chapitre I," La revelation divine,  I, ed. B-D Dupuy, (Paris: Cerf, 1968),  157-302.