Bible and cultures: Christian identity as encounter

The Catholic Biblical Federation has published a new volume titled "Culture, Bible, Identity: Christian Faith and Interculturality." The book is available for free download on the Federation’s website as part of its new academic series, "Contextual Readings of the Bible."

The volume compiles contributions from an international online conference held from January 21 to 23, 2025. Organized by the Catholic Biblical Federation General Secretariat and the biblical-pastoral association Verbum Domini, the event included collaboration with the University of Ghana and Paris Lodron University in Salzburg.

Scholars from various cultural and geographical backgrounds contributed to the work to examine how Christian identity formed in early communities and how it develops in today's pluralistic and postcolonial world. Father Jan Stefanów, the Secretary General of the Catholic Biblical Federation, noted in the preface that this marks the Federation's first publication since 2008.