The Author
Martin Andrew is a lay Catholic writer based in Switzerland. His work is a sustained meditation on Sacred Scripture, read as a unified whole and in continuity with the tradition of the Holy Church.
At the heart of his writing is the conviction that revelation may be understood as a dialogue: God calls, man responds, and in Jesus Christ that dialogue is brought to fulfilment. His work seeks to make this structure visible, drawing together themes that run from Genesis to the Gospel, and tracing the coherence of the Word of God as it unfolds across the whole of Scripture.
He writes as a layman, outside the academy, from within the ordinary life of the Church, its liturgy, its Scriptures, and the conversation of small groups engaged in patient biblical study.
These texts are offered in fidelity as lay meditations on Scripture, in fidelity to the teaching authority of the Catholic Church.
The scriptural citations throughout these works are drawn principally from the Douay-Rheims Version, chosen for its fidelity to the Latin Vulgate and its continuity with the living tradition of the Catholic Church. Where appropriate, reference is also made to the King James Version (1611, with Apocrypha) and other historic translations, not for comparison as an end in itself, but to illuminate more fully the unity and depth of the Word of God. In this way, Scripture is approached not as a collection of isolated texts, but as a coherent whole in which God speaks, man responds, and in Jesus Christ this divine dialogue is brought to fulfilment.
M.A.
