Wilfred Robert Francis Browning is an

Anglican Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...

clergyman and theologian. He was

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of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and of Blackburn Cathedral. He is now an honorary priest and honorary canon. He previous lectured in New Testament Studies at the

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and at Cuddesdon College in Oxford.

''The Gospel According to St. Luke'' (1960)

Browning's ''The Gospel According to St. Luke'' was published by The Macmillan Company in 1960. A non-technical commentary on the Gospel of Luke, the book emphasises

typological Typology is the study of types or the systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics. Typology is the act of finding, counting and classification facts with the help of eyes, other senses and logic. Ty ...

interpretations of the Bible. Reviewing the book in 1961, Joseph M. Gettys argued "that neither Jesus nor Luke was as conscious of the proposed schematic typological pattern as is Canon Browning", but concluded the book would "serve a useful purpose ... for it has the virtues of honest scholarship and readability."

''The Anglican Synthesis'' (1965)

''The Anglican Synthesis'', edited by Browning and published in 1965 by Peter Smith, is a collection of essays intended as a re-examination of Catholic and Protestant elements in Anglicanism. Its concluding essay argues that a true Anglican synthesis would not be a compromise but rather "utterly Catholic and utterly Protestant". Reviewing the book in 1966, C. J. Sansbury wrote "It's an exciting idea, but there is not much real dialogue in this book; inevitably, perhaps, it is a statement of the beliefs which certain individuals hold on certain subjects."

''A Dictionary of the Bible'' (1996)

''A Dictionary of the Bible'', by Browning with

Graham Stanton Graham Norman Stanton (1940–2009) was a New Zealand biblical scholar who taught at King's College, London, and as Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. A New Testament specialist, Stanton's special interests were ...

and

Richard Coggins Richard J. Coggins (10 June 1929 – 19 November 2017) was a British biblical commentator, notable for his contributions to ''The Cambridge Bible Commentaries''. Life Coggins graduated from Exeter College, Oxford in 1950 and after training for t ...

as consultant editors, was published by Oxford University Press in 1996. The dictionary comprises short entries on people, places, events and institutions in the Bible, as well as modern scholars and early translators of the Bible, other figures from the Biblical world, the

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, and methods of exegesis. A 1996 review in the ''

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'' described the entries as "occasionally misleading" and recommended the book to "students at the beginning of biblical work."

Books

* W. R. F. Browning, ''The Gospel According to St. Luke'' ( The Macmillan Company, 1960) * W. R. F. Browning (editor), ''The Anglican Synthesis'' (Peter Smith, 1965) * W. R. F. Browning with Graham Stanton and Richard Coggins, ''A Dictionary of the Bible'' ( Oxford University Press, 1996) * W. R. F. Browning, ''Saint Luke'', Morehouse Publishing

References

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