2009 Catholic Press Association Award Winner A decade after the untimely death of renowned Scripture scholar Father Raymond E.
He was author of some forty books on the Bible and past president of three of the most important biblical societies in.
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That very broad audience \'those who grew up with Brown, so to speak, as well as a whole new generation of readers and preachers of the word \'will find this book to be a source of inspiration and knowledge that they will turn to again and again.
He did this in a fashion that was both inspiring and educational. . . .
As Witherup notes in his preface, Brown had the rare capacity to simplify complex biblical studies in a manner that did not \'dumb down \' the material but allowed it to be understood by a wide audience.
Witherup, SS, as well as useful indexes and a bibliography of resources for preaching the word of God in the context of the lectionary.
Donahue, SJ, and Ronald D.
Appropriately, then, this edition contains introductory essays by Brown\'s colleagues and friends John R.
Yet Brown, being a scholar\'s scholar, would recognize the need for some enhancement in a work being republished some thirty years after the first volume appeared.
Brown\'s work is left largely untouched, and readers will find that his wisdom is lasting.
Those six volumes are collected here in one convenient commemorative edition to mark the tenth anniversary of Brown\'s death.
That book, Christ in the Gospels of the Ordinary Sundays, completed his six-volume series on preaching the Scriptures, a series that had begun in the mid-1970s with the publication of his popular An Adult Christ at Christmas.
It was only days after Father Brown\'s death that his final book was published by Liturgical Press.
Brown, SS, he continues to inspire and inform scholars and preachers, students and pastoral ministers, lay and ordained. 2009 Catholic Press Association Award Winner A decade after the untimely death of renowned Scripture scholar Father Raymond E
