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

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1888992042 ISBN13: 9781888992045 Release Date: April 2000 Publisher: Catholic Answers Press Length: 170 Pages Weight: 0.45 lbs. Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0" Are Catholics anti-Bible? Who compiled the biblical text? How was the Bible preserved? What role does the Bible play in the Catholic Faith? In Where We Got the Bible, Bishop Henry G. Graham explains how the Catholic Church compiled the sacred text, how medieval monks preserved it, and how Catholic scholars first gave Christians the Bible in their own languages. Along the way, Graham refutes myths about Catholic opposition to Scripture. To his lively history of the Bible is added his conversion story, "From the Kirk to the Catholic Church." Brought up a Calvinist in Scotland, Graham became a minister but found himself irresistibly drawn to the Catholic Faith, eventually becoming a bishop. Learn about the history of the Bible and the Church's important role in preservi