Sherri Brown, MS, PhD

Professor

Theology

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Contact

SherriBrown@creighton.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
Graduate School
Christian Spirituality (Master of Arts)
Theology
DHHC - Dowling Hall/Humanities Center - 124

Sherri Brown, MS, PhD

Professor

Theology

Sherri Brown grew up primarily in Charleston, West Virginia, and attended college at Washington and Lee University in Virginia.  After early graduate work at Yale University Divinity School and Columbia University School of Social Work, and following a stint in the US Peace Corps and several years working in the international development field, she returned to graduate school at the Catholic University of America to pursue a PhD in Biblical Studies. She focused her studies in Christian Origins and the New Testatment and completed the degree in 2008.  After an initial faculty position in western New York, she joined the Theology Department at Creighton University in 2014.  Her research interests lie primarily on the Gospel and Letters of John, but she has also worked in the Pauline and Catholic Epistles  She loves adventure and traveling. A more complete listing of scholarship, teaching, and research interests can be found on my Curriculum Vitae.

Curriculum Vitae

Research Focus

Johannine Literature; Christian Origins; Narrative Criticism; Performance Criticism; Pauline Theology

Department

Theology

Position

Professor

Books

  • John, Jesus, and History, Volume 4
    Brown Sherri, The Memory of Jesus through the Sabbath [Book Chapter] 2024
  • Myers Alicia D, etal Come and Read 2023
  • Come and See
    Brown Sherri, Chapter One—The Call to Receive and Believe [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Come and See
    Brown Sherri, Conclusion—The Mandate for Mission in the Gospel of John [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Come and See
    Brown Sherri, Introduction—The Gospel of John and Imperatives as Invitations to Discipleship [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Come and See
    Brown Sherri, Chapter Three—The Charge to Know the Truth [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Come and See
    Brown Sherri, Chapter Four—The Command to Abide and Love One Another [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Brown Sherri, Come and See 2022
  • Come and See
    Brown Sherri, Chapter Five—The Hope for Life through the Challenge to Follow [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Come and See
    Brown Sherri, Select Bibliography [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Come and See
    Brown Sherri, About the Series [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Come and See
    Brown Sherri, Chapter Two—The Summons to Come and See [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Brown Sherri, Inquiry into the New Testament: Ancient Context to Contemporary Significance 2021
  • Brown Sherri, etal Interpreting the New Testament 2019
  • Brown Sherri, Ecclesiology and Theosis in the Gospel of John 2018
  • Brown Sherri, etal A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English 2018
  • Brown Sherri, Wisdom's Feast: An Invitation to Feminist Interpretation of the Scriptures 2017
  • Johannine Ethics
    Brown SHERRI, Believing in the Gospel of John [Book Chapter] 2017
  • Brown Sherri, Interpreting the Gospel and the Letters of John 2017
  • Brown Sherri, etal Johannine ethics 2017
  • Brown Sherri, Interpreting the Gospel and Letters of John : An Introduction 2017
  • Brown Sherri, God's promise 2014
  • Characters and Characterization in the Gospel of John
    Brown Sherri, John the Baptist [Book Chapter] 2013
  • Unity and Diversity in the Gospels and Paul
    Brown Sherri, Faith, Christ, and Paul’s Theology of Salvation History [Book Chapter] 2012
  • Brown Sherri, Gift upon gift 2010

Publications

  • Horizons in biblical theology
    Brown Sherri, Creation and the Revelation of God: Interwoven and Interactive Themes across John 1:1–2:12
    46:2, p. 196 - 220 2024
  • The Catholic Biblical quarterly
    Brown Sherri, Women Who Do: Female Disciples in the Gospels by Holly J. Carey (review)
    86:3, p. 612 - 613 2024
  • Expository times
    Brown Sherri, Women in John’s Gospel
    135:2, p. 85 - 86 2023
  • Interpretation (Richmond)
    Brown Sherri, Come and See: Discipleship in the Gospel of John
    77:4, p. 401 - 401 2023
  • Review and expositor (Berne)
    Brown Sherri, Jesus and violence during Tabernacles: Wit, mercy, and accountability in John 7–8 2023
  • Brown Sherri, John through Old Testament Eyes 2023
  • Expository times
    Brown Sherri, And Finally
    134:2, p. 95 - 96 2022
  • Expository times
    Brown Sherri, Prophetic Endurance and Eschatological Restoration: Exhortation and Conclusion in the Epistle of James
    130:12, p. 530 - 540 2019
  • Expository times
    Brown Sherri, And, Finally ... Women, Creativity, and Power around the World
    129:12, p. 586 - 586 2018
  • Expository Times
    Brown Sherri, The Challenge of 2 Peter and the Call to Theosis
    128:12, p. 583 - 592 2017
  • Theological Studies
    Brown Sherri Lynn, Becoming the Gospel: Paul, Participation, and Mission
    77:4, p. 952 - 954 2016
  • Theological Studies
    Brown Sherri Lynn, First, Second, and Third John
    77:1, p. 261 - 261 2016
  • Theological Studies
    Brown Sherri Lynn, Biblical Essays in Honor of Daniel J. Harrington, SJ, and Richard J. Clifford, SJ: Opportunity for no Little Instruction
    76:4, p. 882 - 882 2015
  • Theology Today
    Brown Sherri Lynn, Water imagery and the power and presence of God in the Gospel of John
    72:3, p. 289 - 298 2015
  • The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
    Brown Sherri Lynn, Life Abounding: A Reading of John's Gospel
    77:4, p. 755 - 756 2015
  • Catholic Biblical Quarterly
    Brown Sherri Lynn, What is Truth? Jesus, Pilate, and the Staging of the Dialogue of the Cross in John 18:28-19:16a
    77:1, p. 69 - 86 2015
  • Perspectives in Religious Studies
    Brown Sherri Lynn, What's in an Ending?: John 21 and the Performative Force of an Epilogue
    42:1, p. 29 - 42 2015
  • Reference reviews
    Brown Sherri, The Shakespeare Quartos Archive
    26:3, p. 29 - 30 2012
  • Salesianum
    Brown Sherri, The dialectic of relationship : Paul and the veiling of women in 1 corinthians 11:2-16
    67:3, p. 457 - 477 2005

Awards

  • 2018 First Place for Reference Books
    2018 Catholic Press Association First Place Award in “Reference Books” for Interpreting the Gospel and Letters of John: An Introduction. Co-written with Francis J. Moloney, SDB. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017.
    The Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada