The Bible in the Church: A Popular Account of the Collection and Reception of the Holy Scriptures in the Christian Churches
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Overview
Brooke Foss Westcott’s The Bible in the Church offers a “popular account of the collection and reception of the Holy Scriptures in the Christian Churches.” Written as “attempt to answer a request which has been made to [Westcott] from time to time, to place in a simple form the substance of History of the Canon of the New Testament,” this volume is expanded to include the whole Bible, producing a concise and readable historical introduction to the Bible’s history from the Apostolic Age through the sixteenth century.
- Title: The Bible in the Church: A Popular Account of the Collection and Reception of the Holy Scriptures in the Christian Churches
- Author: Brooke Foss Westcott
- Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
- Print Publication Date: 1864
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 316
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible; Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. History; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
- Resource ID: LLS:BBLCHRCHCCHRCHS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-01-31T22:20:16Z
Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901) was a British bishop, biblical scholar, and theologian serving as bishop of Durham from 1890 until his death.
Westcott studied at Trinity College in Cambridge where he graduated in 1848. He stayed at Trinity, where in 1849 he obtained his fellowship and was ordained deacon and priest. He received honorary degrees from Oxford in 1881 and Edinburgh 1883. In 1890, he became the bishop of Durham.
He has authored several works, including Introduction to the New Testament in the Original Greek, A General View of the History of the English Bible, Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament, and Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians.