masterful, scholarly history on Catholic biblical schol- arship in the United States. Chronicles the long internal struggle of the Catholic Church to move from a biblical funda- mentalist approach to an acceptance of any valid results of crit- ical scholarship for Bible interpretation. This is history at its best, guaranteeing that an important part of our heritage not be lost." JOHN F. WHEALON, archbishop of Hartford

"Combining historical precision and narrative artistry in a richly illuminating way, Professor Fogarty unfolds the remarkable story of the maturing of Roman Catholic biblical scholarship in America. His careful focus on the ongoing struggle to relate magisterial authority and scholarly integrity in Catholicism provides much insight on the life of Amer- ica's largest church... [This] informative work is a major contribution to biblical, historical, and theological studies." -ROBERT T. HANDY, Henry Sloane Coffin Professor Emeritus of Church History, Union Theological Seminary

"A significant book. .. Fogarty has drawn on archives,

correspondence, and personal interviews to tell a dramatic story, much of it never told before. There are straightforward accounts from the first beginnings of the biblical movement to the emergence of modern critical scholarship... "Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed could well be the book's subtitle." JOSEPH JENSEN, O.S.B., executive secretary, The Catholic University of America