In the first installment of the Horizons anniversary collection, our anniversary roundtable features Raymond E. Brown’s article from Horizons 1.1 (1974), “‘Who Do Men Say that I Am?’—Modern Scholarship on Gospel Christology.” Pheme Perkins, Boston College, and Gilberto A. Ruiz, Saint Anselm College, respond.
Perkins and Ruiz offer probing and appreciative perspectives on Brown’s insights that also challenge biblical scholars and theologians to a renewed cooperation in a twenty-first-century key. We hope that a refreshed reading of Brown with the assistance of Perkins and Ruiz will inspire our readers to continue the conversation. Additionally, founding coeditor Rodger Van Allen provides insights on the naming and founding of Horizons as a preface to reprinting his 1999 account of the origins of the journal. The current editors believe it is important to highlight our “origin story” for a new generation of readers and contributors.