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Where We Got the Bible (Digital)

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Learn about the history of the Bible and the Church’s important role in preserving it.

Are Catholics anti-Bible?

Who compiled the biblical text?

Who organized the 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.

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    Excellent review of Bible history

    Posted by Douglas Misquitta on Feb 8th 2022

    This is a very readable book, and Father Graham writes with passion and some attitude. There are fantastic points from early in the book to arm yourself to push back against false history of the Bible, and to provide context for how we got the Bible and the early church's existence before the canon was confirmed. Add Jimmy Akin's book "The Bible is a Catholic Book," and you really have a great one-two punch on this topic.

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