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Anthony Giambrone, OP, offers a biblical theology of the priesthood rooted in the Old and New Testaments.
"This beautifully written volume manages to pack a very sophisticated set of interpretive proposals into a book that a general theological reader can understand and enjoy. Most modern books on the priesthood either deny the linkage between the Bible and Catholic practice or smuggle in a variety of apologetic readings in an attempt to justify a predetermined position. With characteristic honesty and brilliance, Giambrone provides a much-needed alternative: an exegetically sound grounding of the office of the priesthood in the biblical tradition."
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Gary A. Anderson, University of Notre Dame
"This is the kind of exegesis I have been waiting for since I became a student of the sacred page. Fr. Giambrone masterfully fulfills the mandate of
Dei Verbum 12, effortlessly integrating his outstanding historical scholarship into a balanced, fully canonical Christian hermeneutic. The fruit is a profoundly biblical theology of the priesthood that will illuminate exegetes, fundamental theologians, and dogmaticians alike."
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Nina Heereman, St. Patrick's Seminary & University
"A splendid work of unimpeachable scholarship from an international biblical scholar. Every seminarian should be given this book to prosper his grace to be a priest. Every priest should read this book to fortify his vocation. Every bishop should buy this book. Additionally, Fr. Giambrone's easy-to-read presentation of biblical themes will help Christ's lay faithful to understand the divinely ordained place that the Catholic priest occupies in the Church."
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Romanus Cessario, OP, Ave Maria University
Praise for the Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments Series
"This series gives to students of the Bible a deeply enriched view of the mesh of relationships within and between biblical texts that are brought to light by the liturgy of the sacraments."
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Jennifer Grillo, University of Notre Dame
"This series points the way to the theological and exegetical future."
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Matthew Levering, Mundelein Seminary
About the author
Anthony Giambrone, OP (PhD, University of Notre Dame), is vice president and professor of New Testament at the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem. He also teaches at the University of Notre Dame and at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. In addition to numerous scholarly and popular articles, he is the author of
A Quest for the Historical Christ: Scientia Christi
and the Modern Study of Jesus.
Summary
In this addition to the Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments series, a leading Catholic scholar offers a biblical theology of the priesthood rooted in the Old and New Testaments.
