Where We Got the Bible: Our Debt to the Catholic Church

by Henry G. Graham

Publisher:

Catholic Answers

, 1997

Overview

Learn the origins of the Bible and trace the role of the Catholic Church in compiling, preserving, and revering the Bible throughout history in Where We Got the Bible: Our Debt to the Catholic Church. Bishop Henry Graham refutes charges that the Catholic Church is somehow opposed to Scripture. This edition also includes Bishop Graham’s conversion story—a compelling account of how this Calvinist minister was drawn to the Catholic faith and eventually became a bishop. If you love the written word of God, you owe it to yourself to read this book and learn about the Bible’s history—and the Church’s important role in preserving and promoting (not opposing) sacred Scripture.

In Where We Got the Bible: Our Debt to the Catholic Church, you’ll find the answer to these and other questions such as:

• Are Catholics anti-Bible?
• Who compiled biblical text?
• Who organized the text?
• How was the Bible preserved?
• What role does the Bible play in the Catholic faith?

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Key Features

• Refutes charges that the Catholic Church is somehow opposed to Scripture
• Includes Bishop Graham’s conversion story
• Discusses the Church’s role in preserving and promoting sacred Scripture

Contents

• Some Errors Removed
• The Making of the Old Testament
• The Church Precedes the New Testament
• The Church Compiles the New Testament
• Deficiencies of the Protestant Bible
• The Originals and Their Disappearance
• Variations in the Text Fatal to Protestant Theory
• Our Debt to the Monks
• Bible Reading in the Dark Ages
• Where Are All the Medieval Bibles?
• Vernacular Scriptures before Wycliff
• Why Wycliff Was Condemned
• Tyndale’s Condemnation Vindicated
• A Deluge of Erroneous Versions
• The Catholic’s Bible
• Envoi

Top Highlights

“What, then, came of those poor souls who lived before the Bible was printed, before it was even written in its present form? How were nations made familiar with the Christian religion and converted to Christianity before the fifteenth century?” (Page 3)

“A last point must always be kept clearly in mind, for it concerns one of the greatest delusions entertained by Protestants and makes their fierce attacks on Rome appear so silly and irrational—the point, namely, that the Bible, as we have it now, was not printed in any language at all till about 1,500 years after the birth of Christ, for the simple reason that there was no such thing as printing known before that date.” (Pages 2–3)

“Even Protestant authors of the highest standing are compelled to admit that the living teaching of the Church was necessarily the means chosen by Jesus Christ for the spread of his gospel and that the committing of it to writing was a later and secondary development.” (Page 10)

“One more authority on the Protestant side, and I am done: It is Mr. Karl Pearson (Academy, August 1885), who says, ‘The Catholic Church has quite enough to answer for, but in the fifteenth century it certainly did not hold back the Bible from the folk, and it gave them in the vernacular a long series of devotional works which for language and religious sentiment have never been surpassed. Indeed, we are inclined to think it made a mistake in allowing the masses such ready access to the Bible. It ought to have recognized the Bible once for all as a work absolutely unintelligible without a long course of historical study and, so far as it was supposed to be inspired, very dangerous in the hands of the ignorant.’” (Page 72)

Product Details

• Title: Where We Got the Bible: Our Debt to the Catholic Church
• Author: Henry G. Graham
• Publisher: Catholic Answers
• Print Publication Date: 1997
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 180
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible › History; Bible › Versions
• Resource ID: LLS:WHEREGOTBIBLE
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T21:07:36Z

About Henry G. Graham

Henry Graham was brought up a Calvinist in Scotland, became a minister, but found himself irresistibly drawn to Catholicism, became a priest, and eventually became a bishop.