W. R. F. Browning
Anglican clergyman and theologian
Wilfred Robert Francis Browning is an Anglican clergyman and theologian. He was Canon Residentiary 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 Oxford University Department for Continuing Education 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 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.
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