New Catholic Commentary on the Sacred Scriptures!

[Fidelis]

There’s a new Catholic commentary series out that looks pretty exciting. Here’s the blurb from the website:

Leading Scholars Provide Catholic Commentaries for Ministry in the 21st Century
The CATHOLIC COMMENTARY ON SACRED SCRIPTURE combines outstanding biblical scholarship with lively faith to help Catholics, especially those in pastoral ministry, interpret Scripture and apply it to Christian life today. In seventeen volumes, the series offers readable, informative commentary on each book of the New Testament. The CCSS responds to the desire of Catholics to study the Bible in depth and in a way that integrates Scripture with Catholic doctrine, worship, and daily life.

Central to the commentary’s approach are the theological principles taught by Vatican II for interpreting Scripture “in accord with the same Spirit by which it was written”—that is, interpreting Scripture in its canonical context and in the light of Catholic tradition and the analogy of faith (Dei Verbum, 12). The CCSS helps readers grasp the meaning of texts both in their historical and literary context and in their relationship to Catholic doctrine and life in the present.

And here’s the website:

catholiccommentaryonsacredscripture.com/

Like the Ignatius Study Bible it looks like it is being released a volume at a time. It also has some of the same scholar/editors involved. The good news is that, unlike the ISB, it is being published by Baker, a major publisher who might be able to publish these faster than a smaller publishing house

 

[Fidelis]

Boy, maybe I should have named this thread “Let’s Argue About Mary” or something.

 

[NotWorthy]

No, you did well!!! After all, it looks like there’s 30-40 people that have looked at it already!

Thanks for the heads up!!!

BTW, it looks like they use different authors for the different books. Hopefully, that means each author is an expert on their subject.

But I also hope it doesn’t lead to discontinuity among the books.

 

[RSnider]

One good thing about different authors is that the series should be completed in a somewhat timely manner!! I have been waiting for what seems like forever for the Ignatius Study Bible to be completed.

I just purchased the first two books (waiting for delivery) - “Mark” and “1st & 2nd Timothy and Titus”.

 

[danlaupat]

I thank you, too, for sharing the link. I ordered the Gospel of Mark book for now. I tend to use the The New Jerome Commentary and the Ignatius, and I"m ready for something new! I don’t mind different authors, and I’m assuming they are chosen carefully by the editor/publisher.

 

[eric_sammons]

I just want to say that I highly recommend this series. I am friends with one of the General Editors (and author of the volume on the Gospel of Mark) Mary Healy, and she is an intelligent, faithful Catholic (she is also writing the volume on the Letter to the Hebrews with Scott Hahn). When she explained the vision of the series to me a while back I was very impressed; it is to be a scholarly, faithful and modern Catholic commentary. Something that is desperately needed!

This series will be a great compliment to the Navarre Bible and Ignatius; I believe it is to be more scholarly than those two series, yet still readable and faithful to the teaching of the Church.

Eric

 

[NotWorthy]

I’m very early in the Mary Healy’s commentary on Mark’s Gospel and I’m enjoying it immensely. Bear in mind that I’ve also got the Navarre and Ignatius 2nd Edition Study Bibles (which are also great), so this “ain’t my first rodeo”!

Mary’s book is easy to read but full of great teaching, and wholly Catholic.

At the risk of infringing on copyright rules, I’d like to post a quick portion to show the depths that Mary is going. Here, she is discussing the cure of the leper in Mark 1:40-45:

Jesus tells the cleansed man to show himself to a priest and offer the sacrifice prescribed for cleansing from leprosy (see Lev 14), showing his respect for the law of Moses (Mark 7:10; 10:3; Matt 23:2-3). A priests pronouncement of a clean bill of health will allow the man to reenter society and participate once again in temple worship.

The prescribed rite was to take two clean birds, one to be sacrificed and the other, dipped in the blood of the first, to fly away free (Lev. 14:3-7). If the man (the leper) complied with Jesus’ word, he might have discovered a symbolic image foreshadowing Jesus’ own sacrifice and helping him understand more deeply what Jesus had done for him.

That’s pretty powerful to me! As you can see, she’d letting you know where the teaching comes from, without bogging down in the details. I like that!

One of the things that really got me even more excited about this series is the authors for their upcoming books (although I’m dying to get a time-line of the books releases):
Forthcoming Volumes:

• *The Gospel of Matthew *by Edward Sri and Curtis Mitch
• *The Gospel of Luke *by Timothy Gray
• The Gospel of John by Francis Martin and William M. Wright IV
• The Acts of the Apostles by William Kurz, SJ
• Romans by Scott Hahn
• First Corinthians by George T. Montague, SM
• Second Corinthians by Thomas D. Stegman, SJ
• Galatians byRonald D. Witherup, SS
• Ephesians by Peter S. Williamson
• Philippians, Colossians, Philemon by Dennis Hamm, SJ
• *Hebrews *by Scott Hahn and Mary Healy
• First and Second Peter, Jude by Daniel Keating
• Revelation by Peter S. Williamson
  Although I’m unfamiliar with a few of these authors, I know they are in good company which says a lot for them!!!

 

[COPLAND_3]

I’m very early in the Mary Healy’s commentary on Mark’s Gospel and I’m enjoying it immensely. Bear in mind that I’ve also got the Navarre and Ignatius 2nd Edition Study Bibles (which are also great), so this “ain’t my first rodeo”!

Mary’s book is easy to read but full of great teaching, and wholly Catholic.

At the risk of infringing on copyright rules, I’d like to post a quick portion to show the depths that Mary is going. Here, she is discussing the cure of the leper in Mark 1:40-45:
That’s pretty powerful to me! As you can see, she’d letting you know where the teaching comes from, without bogging down in the details. I like that!

One of the things that really got me even more excited about this series is the authors for their upcoming books (although I’m dying to get a time-line of the books releases):
Forthcoming Volumes:

• *The Gospel of Matthew *by Edward Sri and Curtis Mitch
• *The Gospel of Luke *by Timothy Gray
• The Gospel of John by Francis Martin and William M. Wright IV
• The Acts of the Apostles by William Kurz, SJ
• Romans by Scott Hahn
• First Corinthians by George T. Montague, SM
• Second Corinthians by Thomas D. Stegman, SJ
• Galatians byRonald D. Witherup, SS
• Ephesians by Peter S. Williamson
• Philippians, Colossians, Philemon by Dennis Hamm, SJ
• *Hebrews *by Scott Hahn and Mary Healy
• First and Second Peter, Jude by Daniel Keating
• Revelation by Peter S. Williamson
  Although I’m unfamiliar with a few of these authors, I know they are in good company which says a lot for them!!!

Yea, if Hahn is among them then I’d say they are faithful to orthodoxy.

 

[eric_sammons]

I am especially looking forward to the volume on the Gospel of John. The author, Fr. Francis Martin, lives down the street from me, and he is a faithful, highly, highly intelligent, and orthodox priest. I consider him one of the best Scripture scholars in the country, and I learn more from a 5-minute daily Mass homily from him than most books I read!

 

[NotWorthy]

Yea, if Hahn is among them then I’d say they are faithful to orthodoxy.

If you like Hahn, you will absolutely love Tim Gray and Edward Sri!!!

This, I promise you! (ok, ok, at least I pray you will love them!)