In a recent book...

In a recent book, Faith in the Resurrection, Resurrection of Faith[^20] (Foi en la Resurrection, Resurrection de la foi), Father Kannengiesser, a professor at the Catholic Institute of Paris, outlines this profound change in the following terms: "The faithful are hardly aware that a revolution has taken place in methods of Biblical exegesis since the time of Pious XII"[^21]. The 'Revolution' that the author mentions is therefore very recent.

It is beginning to be extended to the teaching of the faithful, in the case of certain specialists at least, who are animated by this spirit of revival. "The overthrow of the most assured prospects of the pastoral tradition," the author writes, "has more or less begun with this revolution in methods of exegesis." Father Kannengiesser warns that 'one should not take literally' facts reported about Jesus by the Gospels,…