Who fears the historical-critical method?

Abstract

This article avoids explaining what the historical-critical method is, its history, its presuppositions, and the various methodological steps it involves. Rather, it will outline the process of its acceptance by the Catholic Church, from Leo XIII’s Providentissimus Deus (1893) to the Pontifical Biblical Commission’s relatively recent Inspiration and Truth of Sacred Scripture (2014). It will then briefly demonstrate that the Catechism of the Catholic Church has simply forgotten the historical-critical method and present possible lines for a dialog between the exegesis of the historical-critical method and Latin American biblical reading.