The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, which I just posted about on another thread, received a Nihil Obstat and an Imprimatir in spite of the fact that it questioned many of the doctrines of the faith:
IMHO this is a very poorly written article. I had trouble understanding some of the points, so I happen to have the JBC and I read one of his references:
Fr. Raymond Brown argues that Jesus only intended to renew Israel,
but not to found a Church.[7] “The older blueprint supposition by
which Jesus had the Church clearly in mind and had already planned
its structure, sacraments, etc., has little or no textual
support…”
This implies Jesus did not intend to set up a Church, in
my reading. If you put the comments back in context (and
by the way the author typed this as a direct quote but
it is NOT a direct quote of what the JBC says here, but
it’s close), the section is referring to ekklesia, the Church
Christ established, as differentiated from the Kingdom of
God, for example. Anyway, what he says is there is no
textual reference that Jesus intend to establish the Church,
ekklesia, in what he said from the time of baptism of John
and the crucifixion! Jesus quotes the gentiles coming into
Israel, Israel already had worship, priests, sacrifices, etc.,
he selected 12 Apostles as the titular heads of the 12 tribes
of Israel, so it was renewal of Israel, (God’s chosen people
not the political state) that textual references support.
To take this complicated analysis and summarize it as
“Jesus did not intend to found a Church” is blatantly
misleading – he didn’t say that at all.
I suspect the other statements are
rubbish too.
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