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Bible Basics I: What is the Bible & Where did it come from?

Below you will find a video tutorial on how to present this topic to your students.

The PowerPoint slides which appear in the tutorial video are available for download for registered users below the video.

Finally, at the bottom of the page you will find a suggested reading list for you to familiarize yourself with as a catechist pertinent to this topic.

Suggested Reading List:

Dei Verbum-Second Vatican Council Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation

Pope Benedict XVI-Verbum Domini: Apostolic Exhortation on the Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church

Catechism of the Catholic Church, §74-141

Pew Research Center study on “Frequency of reading Scripture.“

Further assistance for explaining many passages of Scripture to your students can be found in Tony’s Sunday Gospel Reflections, here.

Tony Crescio

Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.

Tony’s academic publications can be found here.