Peter in the New Testament
A Collaborative Assessment by Protestant and Roman Catholic Scholars
Edited by Raymond E. Brown, Karl P. Donfried and John H. Reumann
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
Raymond E. Brown (1928 - 1998), a Sulpician priest, was Auburn Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Union Theological Seminary, New York. He was twice appointed a member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, by Pope Paul VI in 1972 and by Pope John Paul II in 1996. He wrote extensively on the Bible and was known worldwide as an expert in Johannine literature.
Karl P. Donfried is the Elizabeth A. Woodson Professor of Religion and Biblical Literature, at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.
John Reumann was a professor of New Testament studies at Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA. He was the author of Righteousness in the New Testament: Justification in the Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue, and ,Ministries Examined: Laity, Clergy, Women, and Bishops in a Time of Change.
"A major contribution to ecumenical conversations done by exegetical experts of different confessional traditions.... A new starting point for discussion of the difficult issue of the primacy of the Pope." -
Lukas Vischer, Secretary to the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches
"At no period since the Reformation has such a joint effort on a divisive topic been possible."
Paul C. Empie, former Secretary General of the U.S.A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation; Bishop T. Austin Murphy, Catholic Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs.
"Ten years ago the very topic of the Petrine office and papal ministry in the Church was pragmatically judged, in the Catholic-Protestant dialogue, to be 'too hot to handle' and 'way, way down the ecumenical path.' This collaborative study, cold in its scholarly objectivity yet warm in its love of the Gospel of Jesus, is a startling reminder that the Spirit moves more quickly than our plans for him."
Thomas F. Stransky, C.S.P., President of the Paulist Fathers