<P> The section on Scripture in the Catechism recovers the Patristic tradition of "spiritual exegesis" as further developed through the scholastic doctrine of the "four senses ." This return to spiritual exegesis is based on the Second Vatican Council's 1965 dogmatic constitution Dei verbum, which taught that Scripture should be "read and interpreted in light of the same Spirit by whom it was written". The Catechism amplifies Dei verbum by specifying that the necessary spiritual interpretation should be sought through the four senses of Scripture, which encompass the literal sense and the three spiritual senses (allegorical, moral, and anagogical). </P> <P> The literal sense pertains to the meaning of the words themselves, including any figurative meanings . The spiritual senses pertain to the significance of the things (persons, places, objects or events) denoted by the words . Of the three spiritual senses, the allegorical sense is foundational . It relates persons, events, and institutions of earlier covenants to those of later covenants, and especially to the New Covenant . Building on the allegorical sense, the moral sense instructs in regard to action, and the anagogical sense points to man's final destiny . The teaching of the Catechism on Scripture has encouraged the pursuit of covenantal theology, an approach that employs the four senses to structure salvation history via the biblical covenants . </P> <P> In 1992, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) noted: </P> <P> It clearly show (s) that the problem of what we must do as human beings, of how we should live our lives so that we and the world may become just, is the essential problem of our day, and basically of all ages . After the fall of ideologies, the problem of man--the moral problem--is presented to today's context in a totally new way: What should we do? How does life become just? What can give us and the whole world a future which is worth living? Since the catechism treats these questions, it is a book which interests many people, far beyond purely theological or ecclesial circles . </P>

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