Film Focus: In this edition of 3 Minute Theology, Joan Watson discusses how Catholics use the four senses of Scripture to gain a fuller understanding of the sacred text. She concisely explains each of the four senses and gives an example of how each is used in Scripture.

Text Focus: Page 91

Discussion Questions:

1.   Why might St. Thomas Aquinas say that the spiritual senses depend on the literal sense?

2.   What is the allegorical sense? Pick a Scripture passage and dis cuss the allegorical sense.

3.   What is the moral or tropological sense? Pick a Scripture passage and discuss the tropological sense.

4.   What is the anagogical sense? Pick a Scripture passage and discuss the anagogical sense.