Original sentence: "  The same author stated, of the Second Vatican Council, that it “raised biblical exegesis from the status of second-class citizenship to which it had been reduced among Catholics by an overreaction to the Protestant claim for its autonomy”
Edited sentence: "  The same author stated, of the Second Vatican Council, that it “raised biblical exegesis from the status of second-class citizenship to which it had been reduced among Catholics by an overreaction to the Protestant claim for its autonomy,” thereby associating Brown’s views with that of the Council