Book Review: Where we got the Bible: Our Debt to the Catholic Church by Henry Graham
This was a quick read, only 170 pages. Henry Graham answers the most often accusations about the Catholic Church which state she prohibited Bible reading, burnt Bibles and tried to keep the Bible from the people. This of course is none sense and Graham explains why. In it he describes that the Catholic Church doesn't hate the bible but that the reverse is actually true. We love and venerate Sacred Scripture. This can be proven by our careful preservation of it for the first 1500 years of Christianity. Also he details the process behind the canonization of the Bible. Why do Catholics have 73 books and not 66? He describes the making of the Old and New testament. Over all, although short, it is a great over view of where we got the Bible that we have today.
The book is actually a two parter. The first 100 pages is about where we got the Bible and the rest is Graham's conversion story, From the Kirk to the Catholic Church. In it he describes how he fell in love with Catholic worship and although growing up in Scotland in the late 19th century he knew nothing about Catholicism, he felt himself pulled in by its beautiful worship and love of Christ. He describes hurdles he had to get over first and how and why in the end he choose the Church.
The book is worth getting for no other reason than Graham's conversion story which is awesome but also the 100 pages that describe where we got the Bible is use full if you have ever wondered the Catholic side of the story.
Next Book Review: The Fathers of the Church by Mike Aquilina
Pax Tecum
This was a quick read, only 170 pages. Henry Graham answers the most often accusations about the Catholic Church which state she prohibited Bible reading, burnt Bibles and tried to keep the Bible from the people. This of course is none sense and Graham explains why. In it he describes that the Catholic Church doesn't hate the bible but that the reverse is actually true. We love and venerate Sacred Scripture. This can be proven by our careful preservation of it for the first 1500 years of Christianity. Also he details the process behind the canonization of the Bible. Why do Catholics have 73 books and not 66? He describes the making of the Old and New testament. Over all, although short, it is a great over view of where we got the Bible that we have today.
The book is actually a two parter. The first 100 pages is about where we got the Bible and the rest is Graham's conversion story, From the Kirk to the Catholic Church. In it he describes how he fell in love with Catholic worship and although growing up in Scotland in the late 19th century he knew nothing about Catholicism, he felt himself pulled in by its beautiful worship and love of Christ. He describes hurdles he had to get over first and how and why in the end he choose the Church.
The book is worth getting for no other reason than Graham's conversion story which is awesome but also the 100 pages that describe where we got the Bible is use full if you have ever wondered the Catholic side of the story.
Next Book Review: The Fathers of the Church by Mike Aquilina
Pax Tecum
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