Augustine Stock (January 26, 1920 – May 11, 2001) was an American Benedictine monk and biblical scholar.
Augustine R. Stock, a native of St. Joseph, Missouri (USA) was a monk of Conception Abbey in Missouri. He entered the monastery in the summer of 1944 after graduating from St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto, and he was ordained to the priesthood on August 28, 1945. In Rome he was awarded an S.T.L. degree from the Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm. He began teaching at his abbey's seminary college in 1952. [1] In 1962, he served as prior of a Benedictine monastic foundation in Denmark and stayed there for several years. [2] It was the first Catholic monastic foundation in Scandinavia since the Reformation. Upon returning to his home abbey, he taught for more than twenty years at Conception Seminary College.
He served for several years as the associate editor of The American Benedictine Review and was a member of the Catholic Biblical Association. [3]
Stock was a specialist in the Gospel of Mark, having published on literary aspects like chiasms, [4] and even divorce (in Matthew). [5] In his review of Stock's scholarly, verse-by-verse commentary on Mark, titled Method and Message, Quentin Quesnell praised Stock for being "full of fresh ideas and approaches". [6]