Jerome D. Quinn: Bibliography
Note: This bibliography was published as part of The Early Church: Two Studies. St. Paul: The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, 1996.
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A. Scholarly Studies On the New Testament and Biblical Studies On the Pastoral Epistles
On Patristic Texts
On Classical Greek Texts
Reviews
B. Popular Studies On the New Testament and Biblical Studies On the Pastoral Epistles
On Theology
Reviews
C. Miscellany Appendix 1: U. S. Lutheran- Roman Catholic Dialogue
Appendix 2: The Catholic Church in Meeker County, Minnesota.
A. Scholarly Studies On the New Testament and Biblical Studies
A1. "Notes on the Text of the P 72 1 PT 2,3; 5,14; and 5,9." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 27 (1965): 241-49.
A2. "Apostolic Ministry and Apostolic Prayer." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 33 (1971): 479-91. Reprinted as a pamphlet and distributed widely by the Program to Adapt the Spiritual Exercises (Jersey City, New Jersey).
A3. "Apostolic Ministry and Apostolic Prayer." A2 condensed in Theology Digest 20 (1972): 116-20.
A4. "P 46 {use superscript solid}-- the Pauline canon-" Catholic Biblical Quarterly 36 (1974): 379-85.
A5. "`Seven times he wore chains' (1 Clem. 5.6)." Journal of Biblical Literature 97 (1978): 574-76.
A6. "Is `PAXAB [Rachab] in Mt. 1,5 Rahab of Jericho-" Biblica 62 (1981): 225-28.
A7. "The Spirit and Biblical Anthropology: Flesh and Spirit." Credo in Spiritum Sanctum. Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Pneumatologia. Roma, 22-26 marzo 1982. Ed. P. Nesti. Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1983. Vol. 2, pp. 865-71.
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On the Pastoral Epistles
A8. "The Last Volume of Luke: The Relation of Luke-Acts and the Pastoral Epistles." Perspectives on Luke-Acts. Ed. Charles H. Talbert. Perspectives in Religious Studies, Special Studies Series No. 5. Macon, Georgia/ Danville, Virginia: Mercer University Press/ Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, 1978. 62-75.
A9. "Paul's Last Captivity." Studia Biblica 1978. Sixth International Congress on Biblical Studies, Oxford, 3-7 April 1978. III. Papers on Paul and Other New Testament Authors. Ed. Elizabeth A. Livingstone. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series 3. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1980. 289-99.
A10. "Parenesis and the Pastoral Epistles." De la T-rah au Messie: Etudes d'ex-g-se et d'herm-neutique bibliques offertes - Henri Cazelles pour ses 25 ann-es d'enseignement - l'Institut Catholique de Paris (Octobre 1979). Ed. Maurice Carrez, Joseph Dor-, and Pierre Grelot. Paris: Descle-, 1981. 495-501. A fuller version appeared as A12.
A11. "Jesus as Savior and Only Mediator (1 Tim 2:3-6): Linguistic Paradigms of Acculturation." Fede e cultura alla luce della Bibbia. Atti della Sessione plenaria 1979 della Pontificia Commissione Biblica. Torino: Editrice Elle Di Ci, 1981. 249-60.
A12. "Paraenesis and the Pastoral Epistles: Lexical Observations Bearing on the Nature of the Sub-genre and Soundings in its Role in Socialization and Liturgies." Paraenesis: Act and form. Ed. Leo G. Perdue and John G. Gammie. Semeia 50. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990. 189-210.
A13. "Tertullian and I Timothy 5:22 on Imposing Hands: Paul Galtier Revisited." Studia Patristica XXI. Papers Presented to the Tenth International Conference on Patristic Studies, held in Oxford 1987. Second Century, Tertullian to Nicaea in the West, Clement of Alexandria and Origen, Athanasius. Ed. Elizabeth A. Livingstone. Leuven: Peeters, 1989. 268-70.
A14. The Letter to Titus. A New Translation with Notes and Commentary and an Introduction to Titus, I and II Timothy, The Pastoral Epistles. Anchor Bible 35. New York: Doubleday, 1990. xlviii + 334 pages.
A15. "Timothy and Titus, Epistles to." The Anchor Bible Dictionary. Ed. David Noel Freedman, Gary A. Herion et al. New York: Doubleday, 1992. Vol. 6, pp. 560-71.
A16. The First and Second Letters to Timothy. A New Translation with Notes and Commentary. Anchor Bible 35A. New York: Doubleday, 1995. With William C. Wacker.
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On Patristic Texts
A17. "Saint John Chrysostom on History in the Synoptics." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 24 (1962): 140-47.
A18. "`Charisma veritatis certum': Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses 4, 26, 2." Theological Studies 39 (1978): 520-25.
On Classical Greek Texts
A19. "Cape Phokas, Lesbos-- Site of an Archaic Sanctuary for Zeus, Hera and Dionysus-" American Journal of Archaeology 65 (1961): 391-93 + plates 128-29.
A20. "Alcaeus 48 (B 16) and the Fall of Ascalon (604 B.C.)." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 164 (1961): 19-20.
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A21. Leclercq, Jacques. The Interior Life. New York: P. J. Kenedy & Sons, 1961. Review. Worship 36 (1962): 61-62.
A22. Bouyer, Louis, C. Orat. The Seat of Wisdom. New York: Pantheon Books, 1962. Review. Worship 36 (1962): 614-16.
A23. The Oxford Annotated Bible. Ed. Herbert G. May and Bruce M. Metzger. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. Review. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 25 (1963): 193-95.
A24-25. Ellis, Peter F., C. Ss. R. The Men and the Message of the Old Testament. Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 1963. Review #1. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 25 (1963): 450-52. Review #2. Worship 37 (1963): 328-29.
A26. Alonso Sch-kel, Luis. Understanding Biblical Research. New York: Herder and Herder, 1963. Review. Worship 37 (1963): 691-92.
A27. Spicq, Ceslaus, O. P. Agape in the New Testament. Vol. 1. St. Louis: B. Herder Book Company, 1963. Review. Worship 38 (1964): 184-86.
A28. Greenlee, J. Harold. Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1964. Review. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 27 (1965): 62-63.
A29. McKenzie, John L., S. J. The Power and the Wisdom: An Interpretation of the New Testament. Milwaukee: Bruce, 1965. Review. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 28 (1966): 80.
A30. The Jerusalem Bible. Ed. Alexander Jones. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1966. Review. Worship 40 (1966): 663.
A31. Aland, Kurt, Matthew Black, Bruce M. Metzger, and Allen Wikgren, eds. The Greek New Testament. New York: American Bible Society, 1966. Review. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 29 (1967): 127.
A32. Giblin, Charles J., S. J. The Threat to Faith: An Exegetical and Theological Reexamination of 2 Thessalonians 2. Analecta Biblica 31. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1967. Review. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 30 (1968): 612-14.
A33. Morrison, Clinton, and David H. Barnes. New Testament Word Lists: For Rapid Reading of the Greek Testament. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1966. Review. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 30 (1968): 118.
A34. Marxsen, Willi. Introduction to the New Testament: An Approach to its Problems. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1968. Review. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 32 (1970): 140-42.
A35. Spicq, C., O. P. Les -p-tres pastorales. 2 vols. Etudes bibliques. Paris: Gabalda, 1969. Review. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 34 (1972): 117-19.
A36. Hanson, Anthony Tyrell. Studies in the Pastoral Epistles. London: SPCK, 1968. Review. Journal of Biblical Literature 91 (1972): 118-19.
A37. Hammam, Adalbert, O. F. M. Prayer: The New Testament. Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1971. Review. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 35 (1973): 532-33.
A38. Dibelius, Martin, and Hans Conzelmann. The Pastoral Epistles. Hermeneia. Philadelphia, Fortress Press, 1972. Review. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 36 (1974): 582-84.
A39. Brown, Raymond E., Karl P. Donfried, and John Reumann, eds. Peter in the New Testament: A Collaborative Assessment by Protestant and Roman Catholic Scholars. Minneapolis/ Paramus, New Jersey: Augsburg Publishing House/ Paulist Press, 1973. Review. Theological Studies 35 (1974): 554-56.
A40. Dibelius, Martin, rev. Heinrich Greeven. James: A Commentary on the Epistle of James. Hermeneia. Philadelphia, Fortress Press, 1976. Review. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 39 (1977): 431-32.
A41. de Lestapis, Stanislaus, S. J. L'-nigme des pastorales de Saint Paul. Paris: Gabalda, 1976. Review. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 40 (1978): 128-30.
A42. Holmberg, Bengt. Paul and Power: The Structure of Authority in the Primitive Church Reflected in the Pauline Epistles. Coniectanea Biblica, New Testament Series 11. Lund: Gleerup, 1978. Review. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 41 (1979): 485-87.
A43. Wilson, Stephen G. Luke and the Pastoral Epistles. London: SPCK, 1979. Review. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 43 (1981): 488-90.
A44. Verner, David C. The Household of God: The Social World of the Pastoral Epistles. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 71. Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1983. Review. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 47 (1985): 178-80.
A45. Schoedel, William R. Ignatius of Antioch. A Commentary on the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch. Hermeneia. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985. Review. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 49 (1987): 159-61.
A46. The New Jerusalem Bible. Ed. Henry Wansbrough, O. S. B. New York: Doubleday, 1985. Review. Worship 61 (1987): 370-72.
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B. Popular Studies On the New Testament and Biblical Studies
B1. "Take a Scroll and Write-- Jer 36:2 [on writing systems and writings materials]." The Bible Today #2 (November 1962): 86-95.
B2. "`The Word of the Lord came. . . .' (Jer. 1:4)." The Bible Today #9 (December 1963): 567-72.
B3-5. Contributions to the New Catholic Encyclopedia. Ed. William J. McDonald et al. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. #1. Ascension of Jesus Christ. Biblical [Evidence]. Vol. 1, pp. 930 + 931-33. #2. Descent of Christ into Hell. In the New Testament [and] Earlier Fathers. Vol. 4, pp. 788-89. #3. Exaltation of Jesus. Vol. 5, p. 701.
B6. "Ministry in the New Testament." Eucharist and Ministry. Ed. Paul C. Empie and T. Austin Murphy. Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue IV. Washington/ New York: U. S. A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation/ Bishops' Commission for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, 1970. 69-100. Reprinted, with original pagination: Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1979.
B7. "Ministry in the New Testament." B6 condensed in Theology Digest 20 (1972): 100-7.
B8. "Celibacy and Ministry in Scripture." The Bible Today #46 (February 1970): 3163-75.
B9. "The View of the Catholic Biblical Association [on Materials for Participation in the Liturgy by the Faithful]." AIM [Aids in Ministry #1 (Spring 1973) 8-11.
B10. "The Scripture, the Priest, and the Faith." The Bible Today #69 (November 1973): 1361-67.
B11. "Ministry in the New Testament." Biblical Studies in Contemporary Thought. Ed. Miriam Ward, R. S. M. Somerville, Massachusetts: Greeno, Hadden & Company, 1975. 130-60. This is a revision and expansion of B6.
B12a. "Krisen in der christlichen Kirche des ersten Jahrhunderts." Concilium (Einsiedeln/ Mainz) 12 (1976): 217-21.
B12b. "Las crisas de la Iglesia en el siglo I." Concilium (Madrid) 114 (1976): 41-50.
B12c. "Crisi nella Chiesa cristiana del primo secolo." Concilium (Brescia) 12 (1976) 55-65.
B12d. "Crises in the First-century Christian Church." The Bible Today #94 (February 1978): 1503-11.
B13. "New Testament Data on Priestly Ordination." America 143 #5 (August 30-September 6, 1980): 94-97. Followed by correspondence in #7 (September 20, 1980): 129; #8 (September 27, 1980): 150; #11 (October 18, 1980): 217; a rejoinder by Madeleine I. Boucher, "New Testament Data on Ordination: A Rejoinder," #15 (November 15, 1980): 306-7; and further correspondence in #20 (December 20, 1980) 397.
B14. "The Scriptures on Merit." Justification by Faith. Ed. T. George Anderson, T. Austin Murphy, and Joseph A. Burgess. Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue VII. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1985. 82-93 + 340-41.
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On the Pastoral Epistles
B15. "The Holy Spirit in the Pastoral Epistles." Sin, Salvation, and the Spirit: Commemorating the Fiftieth Year of The Liturgical Press. Ed. Daniel Durken, O. S. B. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1979. 345-68.
B16. "On the Terminology for Faith, Truth, Teaching, and the Spirit in the Pastoral Epistles: A Summary." Teaching Authority & Infallibility in the Church. Ed. Paul C. Empie, T. Austin Murphy, and Joseph A. Burgess. Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue VI. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1980. 232-37 + 342-44.
B17a. "Ordination in the Pastoral Epistles." Communio 8 (1981): 358-69.
B17b. "Die Ordination in den Pastoralbriefen." Communio 10 (1981): 410-20.
B18. "The Pastoral Epistles on Righteousness." In John Reumann, with Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S. J., and Jerome D. Quinn. Righteousness in the New Testament: "Justification" in Lutheran Catholic Dialogue. Philadelphia/ New York: Fortress Press/ Paulist Press, 1982. 231-38.
B19. "The Pastoral Epistles." The Bible Today 23 #4 (July 1985): 228-38.
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On Theology
B20-23. Advent Series, 1961. "Isaia Summons All: First Week of Advent." Catholic Bulletin for 1 December 1961, p. 5. "John Greatest Prophet: Second Week of Advent." Catholic Bulletin for 8 December 1961, p. 4. "Mary Second Holy `Ark': Third Week of Advent." Catholic Bulletin for 15 December 1961, p. 5. "Wisdom Begins at Crib: Fourth Week of Advent." Catholic Bulletin for 22 December 1961, p. 5A.
B24. "Mary, Seat of Wisdom." The Bible Today #12 (April 1964): 787-92.
B25. "Propitiation." The Eucharist as Sacrifice. Ed. Paul C. Empie and T. Austin Murphy. Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue III. Washington and New York: U. S. A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation and Bishops' Commission for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, 1967. 37-44. Reprinted with original pagination in Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue I-III. Ed. Paul C. Empie and T. Austin Murphy. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, n.d.
B26. "Propitiation." B21 abstracted in Theology Digest 20 (1972): 125.
B27. "[Commentary on Dei Verbum, The] Constitution on Divine Revelation: Chapter V [The New Testament]." The Bible Today #35 (March 1968): 2447-53.
B28. "Marriage, Covenant and Charism." America 143 #8 (September 27, 1980): 170-72 [part of a series on "The Synod and the Family," published in advance of the Sixth Synod of Bishops, September 1980].
B29. "Mary the Virgin, Mother of God: A Tour of the Catacombs of Priscilla." The Bible Today 25 #3 (May 1987): 177-80.
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B30. "Biblical Studies `Scholarly'." [Andr- Feuillet. Johannine Studies. Staten Island: Alba House, 1964. Jean Dani-lou. The Theology of Jewish Christianity. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1964.] Catholic Bulletin for 13 August 1965, p. 9.
B31. Beno-t, Pierre. Jesus and the Gospel, Vol. 1. New York: Herder and Herder, 1973. Review. Dialog (St. Paul) 13 (1974): 238.
B32. Raymond E. Brown, Karl P. Donfried, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, and John Reumann, eds. Mary in the New Testament: A Collaborative Assessment by Protestant and Roman Catholic Scholars. Philadelphia/ New York: Fortress Press/ Paulist Press, 1978. Review. Biblical Theology Bulletin 10 (1980): 134-36.
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C. Miscellany
C1. "The Lenten Season at St. Paul Seminary: 1950." The Catholic Choirmaster. The Official Bulletin of the Society of St. Gregory of America (New York) 36 #2 (June 1950): 82-84 + 88. Cf. the editor's note, "The Choir Pastor," p. 50, on the importance of seminary choirs. The article chiefly concerns the Holy Week music program and is dominated by the figure of Father Francis Missia, the director of music.
C2. The History of Saint Philip's Parish, Litchfield, Minnesota and the Beginnings of Catholicity in Meeker County, Minnesota, 1855-1900. A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Saint Paul Seminary, Saint Paul, Minnesota, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, 1951. iv + 98.
C3. "In memoriam: Walter H. Peters [1911-1967]." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 31 (1972): 72.
C4. "Report on the Sixth International Congress on Biblical Studies." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 40 (1978): 456-57.
C5. "Guided by the Word [In memoriam Eugene H. Maly, 1920-1980]." The Bible Today 18 #5 (November 1980): 419-20.
C6. "In memoriam: George J. Ziskovsky [1903-1984]." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 47 (1985): 304-5.
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Appendix 1: U. S. Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue
A program of dialogue and theological consultation between Lutheran and Roman Catholic theologians in the United States began on July 6-7, 1965, in Baltimore, Maryland. The discussion of "The Status of the Nicene Creed as Dogma of the Church" was based on papers presented by George Lindbeck, John Courtney Murray, S. J., and Warren A. Quanbeck. The theologian-participants in the first and second rounds of dialogue included, in addition to the presenters in the first round, Raymond Brown, S. S., Walter Burghardt, S. J., Godfrey Diekman, O. S. B., Arthur Piepkorn, and Krister Stendahl. Jerome Quinn became a member for the third round and remained active for seventeen years, until his retirement from the group in February 1984. The group celebrated its fiftieth session in 1990, and continues to meet. The volume representing the ninth round in the dialogue, dealing with "The Word of God," is slated to appear shortly.
The work of the dialogue is discussed by Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S. J., who joined for the fifth round and remains a member, in his recent book, Scripture, the Soul of Theology (New York: Paulist, 1994), in ch. 4, "Scripture, The Bridge in Ecumenism" (pp. 93-115); he makes some references to Quinn's work. John Reumann and Fitzmyer discuss "Scripture as Norm for Our Common Faith" and review the dialogue's work during its first quarter century (Journal of Ecumenical Studies 30 [1993] 81-107). The general topic of Lutheran-Catholic dialogue (both in the U. S. and on an international level) is treated in various essays in the all-Lutheran festschrift for Johannes Cardinal Willebrands on his eightieth birthday, Promoting Unity: Themes in Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue (ed. H. George Anderson and James R. Crumley, Jr.; Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1989); on the U.S. Lutheran-Catholic dialogue statements on justification and righteousness, note especially William G. Rusch, "Basic Difference-- A Continuing Debate" (pp. 1-8). Thomas Rausch, S.J., provides an edited version of three "Responses to the U.S. Lutheran-Roman Catholic Statement on Justification" in One in Christ: A Catholic Ecumenical Review 29 (1993) 333-53; the statements are from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (1990), the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (1991), and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (1992). Statements on "Lutheran-Roman Catholic Relations: Two Anniversaries," viz., the six-hundredth anniversary of the canonization of St. Bridget (1991) and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the international Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialogue, are published in One in Christ 29 (1993) 86-89. Quinn presented papers for Dialogue Rounds III (B20), IV (B6, the first major paper of the round), VI (B15), and VII (B13).
The dialogue was initially sponsored by the representatives of the U. S. A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation and the U. S. Bishops' Commission for Ecumenical Affairs (later the Commission for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs). These two bodies jointly published the first three volumes of discussion; later publications have appeared from commercial presses. The dialogue has led to two series of publications. The volumes of the main series (Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue, LCD) have tended to include a common statement signed by all the participants followed by separate papers reflecting on the common statement by the Lutherans as a body and the Catholics as a body; the volumes also include preparatory studies contributed by individuals. The preparatory studies usually show some signs of slight revision in light of the common statement.
LCD I. The Status of the Nicene Creed as Dogma of the Church. New York: Representatives of the U. S. A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation/ U. S. Bishops' Commission for Ecumenical Affairs, 1965.
LCD II. One Baptism for the Remission of Sins. Ed. Paul C. Empie and William W. Baum. New York/ Washington: Representatives of the U. S. A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation/ U. S. Bishops' Commission for Ecumenical Affairs, 1966.
LCD III. The Eucharist as Sacrifice. Ed. Paul C. Empie and T. Austin Murphy. Washington/ New York: Representatives of the U. S. A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation/ National Catholic Welfare Committee/ Bishops' Commission for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, 1967.
LCD I-III. Reprinted in a single volume, with original pagination: Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue I-III. Ed. Paul C. Empie and T. Austin Murphy. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, n. d.
LCD IV. Eucharist & Ministry. Ed. Paul C. Empie and T. Austin Murphy. First edition: Washington/ New York: Representatives of the U. S. A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation/ National Catholic Welfare Committee/ Bishops' Commission for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, 1970. Reprinted with original pagination: Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1979.
LCD V. Papal Primacy and the Universal Church. Ed. Paul C. Empie and T. Austin Murphy. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1974.
LCD VI. Teaching Authority & Infallibility in the Church. Ed. Paul C. Empie, T. Austin Murphy, and Joseph A. Burgess. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1980. The joint statement from this round was preliminarily published in Theological Studies 39 (1979): 113-66.
LCD VII. Justification by Faith. Ed. T. George Anderson, T. Austin Murphy, and Joseph A. Burgess. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1985. The joint statement from this round was preliminarily published in Origins 13 #17 (6 October 1983) 277-304 (complete issue).
LCD VIII. The One Mediator, the Saints, and Mary. Ed. H. George Anderson, J. Francis Stafford, and Joseph A. Burgess. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1992.
Several publications outside the main series have also appeared, dealing with difficult subjects. Quinn reviewed both the study of Peter in the New Testament (A39) and the corresponding volume on Mary (B27); he contributed a brief essay to the volume on righteousness (B17).
Peter in the New Testament: A Collaborative Assessment by Protestant and Roman Catholic Scholars. Ed. Raymond E. Brown, Karl P. Donfried, and John Reumann. Minneapolis/ New York: Ausgburg Publishing House/ Paulist Press 1973.
Mary in the New Testament: A Collaborative Assessment by Protestant and Roman Catholic Scholars. Ed. Raymond E. Brown, Karl P. Donfried, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, and John Reumann. Philadelphia/ New York: Fortress Press/ Paulist Press, 1978.
John Reumann. Righteousness in the New Testament: "Justification" in Lutheran Catholic Dialogue. With responses by Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S. J., and Jerome D. Quinn. Philadelphia/ New York: Fortress Press/ Paulist Press, 1982.
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Appendix 2: The Catholic Church in Meeker County, Minnesota
The Saint Paul Seminary, in the years before it awarded degrees for seminary training, awarded a M. A. in American Church history. The theses for the degree were ventures in local history, typically requiring the seminarian to investigate some aspect of the local church, often his home parish. In 1951 Msgr. Quinn wrote such an M. A. thesis, The History of Saint Philip's Parish, Litchfield, Minnesota and the Beginnings of Catholicity in Meeker County, Minnesota, 1855-1900. (In 1957, the Diocese of New Ulm was split off from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and Quinn's hometown Litchfield and the rest of Meeker County were assigned to New Ulm.)
In a little less than a hundred pages Quinn provides "a sketch of the story of Catholicism in the whole of Meeker County." The area was under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of St. Paul, which had been created in 1850 under Bishop Joseph Cretin. The first Catholics arrived in Meeker County in 1856; they were Irish, and most of the figures in Quinn's story were either Irish immigrants or Irish-Americans from elsewhere in the United States. The major exception occurred very early: in the 1850s there were few priests in the Upper Midwest, so Meeker County was initially under the care of German Benedictine missionaries, who established a priory at St. Cloud in 1856; this priory eventually became St. John's Abbey of Collegeville. By 1871, under Bishop Thomas Grace, diocesan clergy from St. Paul had taken over the churches of Meeker County. Catholics were always in the minority in Meeker County during the half-century that Quinn studied. By 1900, Quinn's concluding point, "the Church had sown her seed and struck her roots into the soil of Meeker County. She had matured and in her growth five parishes had already blossomed."
The basic spadework of Quinn's history was done with local newspapers (both secular and religious, both from Meeker County and from St. Paul and elsewhere in Minnesota), religious directories and similar works of reference, archival material (parish and diocesan records), and theses from the Saint Paul Seminary M. A. program. The thesis treats the basic history of the European settlement of Meeker County: the growth of the various towns, from the earliest, Forest City, to the eventual emergence of Litchfield as the center of the area. Founded in 1869 as a station on the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, it became the county seat in the following year. In the distant background of the story is the Civil War; closer at hand are wars with the Sioux. The thesis also documents some facets of cultural history. The key here was also a battle, with alcohol. The temperance movement is mentioned again and again. The strong sponsorship of the cause by Father (later Bishop and Archbishop) John Ireland was surely important. The Minnesota landscape is often harsh, and so the thesis refers to various natural catastrophes, notably weather problems and grasshopper plagues. In other respects the area presented an ordinary American Victorian profile, with amateur theatricals, local literary societies (directed by a Catholic priest!), and major holiday celebrations (St. Patrick's Day, Decoration Day, the Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas). And there was contact with the outside world; for example, Susan B. Anthony, Quinn records, visited Litchfield in 1878.
The institutional face of the church in the county is documented through Quinn's study of the founding of parishes, the appointing of pastors (and infrequently other priests), and the building of churches (and later Sunday schools and still later rectories). A regular feature of Quinn's history is the untangling of the ever-shifting jurisdictions of the various clergy, nearly all of whom were expected to provide the sacraments in a number of towns. Church fairs, the prizes awarded at them and the funds raised, are also noted.
The first of the five county parishes in the nineteenth century was St. Gertrude's of Forest City, founded in 1867 and its church finished the next year. Its first pastor was Augustine Burns, an Irish-born Benedictine, consecrated as a secular priest by Michael O'Connor, Bishop of Pittsburgh. The second church, dedicated in 1870, was St. Columban's in Greenleaf; it was destroyed by fire not long after and seems never to have been rebuilt. The third church was St. John the Baptist in Darwin, 1878, and the fourth Our Lady in Manannah, 1880. Quinn raises but is unable to answer the obvious question, Why did the smaller towns of Darwin and Manannah get their own parishes before Litchfield- All three are roughly equidistant from Forest City. The people of early Litchfield went to St. Gertrude's, the mother church of St. Philip's, Litchfield, in the early years of the city.
The fifth Catholic church in Meeker County was St. Philip's, founded in 1882. Patrick Kenny (1851-1916), the first pastor, was born in Connecticut, on St. Patrick's Day, and studied for the priesthood at St. John's College, Collegeville, and the Grand Seminaire, Montreal. The church building was nearly finished by November 1882, when a fund-raising Thanksgiving celebration was held. Construction was completed in early 1883, and the church was dedicated by Bishop Ireland on October 7, 1883. The cost of the project was under $5000. Michael J. Flynn (1839-1889) was one of the founders of the parish and headed the finance committee for the building; he later served in the Minnesota State Legislature and as Mayor of Litchfield.
Father Kenny left the parish in 1885. The next two pastors served only briefly: Irish-born Hugh McDevitt was assigned to St. Philip's briefly before going in 1886 to the neighboring Church of Our Lady in Manannah; Lawrence H. Ryan, also apparently Irish-born, 1886, stayed only a few months.
The next pastor arrived in 1886. Patrick J. Boland was born in 1857 in Waltham, Massachusetts, and raised in Minneapolis. He studied for the priesthood at St. Francis Seminary, Milwaukee, and St. John's College, Collegeville. Boland was a truly public figure in Litchfield. He was a popular speaker, delivering, for example, a civic oration on Decoration Day in 1893. When anti-Catholic sentiment was aroused by the American Protective Association in the 1890s, Boland was among those who contributed Catholic rejoinders and surrejoinders to the local newspaper. When a controversy erupted about the treatment of Catholic teachers in the (public) schools by members of the schoolboard, Boland worked successfully to defeat one of the controversialists, a state senator, in the next elections. Boland suffered a bout of typhoid fever in 1898, from which he never fully recovered; he left the parish in 1899.
The interaction of the Meeker County churches with the larger Church is seen in episcopal visits (chiefly for confirmations and church dedications) and in missions preached by order priests. The earliest mission was preached by the Irish-born Holy Cross priest Paul E. Gillen in 1867; visits from various Paulists followed in 1873 and 1876. After the strictly administrative role of Bishops Cretin and Grace, Bishop Ireland, consecrated Grace's co- adjutor in 1875, came on the scene with a bang, sponsoring schemes for using the new railroads to move Irish immigrants from St. Paul and the rest of Minnesota (including Meeker County) to Swift County (west of Meeker County). His other appearances in Quinn's thesis are more modest and episcopal. In 1884 Bishop Grace retired and Ireland was the sole bishop; he was elevated to the rank of archbishop in 1888. The first vocations from Meeker County were those of a Benedictine ordained in 1884 and a diocesan priest ordained in 1891.
Table of Contents
A. Scholarly Studies On the New Testament and Biblical Studies On the Pastoral Epistles
On Patristic Texts
On Classical Greek Texts
Reviews
B. Popular Studies On the New Testament and Biblical Studies On the Pastoral Epistles
On Theology
Reviews
C. Miscellany Appendix 1: U. S. Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue
Appendix 2: The Catholic Church in Meeker County, Minnesota
