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This work, published in 1955, is a dissertation Brown wrote at St. Mary’s University in Baltimore. It deals with the notion of sensus plenior or “fuller sense,” a term in biblical exegesis first used by Andres Fernandez, S.J. in the late 1920s. This new hermeneutic classification sparked a complicated dispute in Catholic circles in the years following, to which Brown adds his voice in this text....

The first two chapters have reviewed briefly the usual classification of the senses of Scripture and the history of exegesis. Now comes an all important question: does a classification into the literal and typical senses meet all possible needs? For instance, can all the valid exegesis of the last three thousand years be classified as either literal or typical? Can the valid use of Scripture (we use the word “valid” to exclude accommodation) in the liturgy
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