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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....

And so finally we are led to a study of the sensus plenior as a possible solution to the problems proposed in the classification of scriptural senses. This study will constitute the rest of our work. Since the term sensus plenior is of recent origin, it might be of interest to comment very briefly on its history. One must distinguish carefully between the sensus plenior as a specific title of a sense of Scripture, and the general usage of the term
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