Where We Got the Bible: Our Debt to the Catholic Church: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Where We Got the Bible: Our Debt to the Catholic Church, credited to Rev. Henry Grey Graham, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Where We Got the Bible: Our Debt to the Catholic Church by Rev. Henry Grey Graham. Read in English by Eduardo; Phil Chenevert; KevinS; Nancy Midlin; Tatiana Chichilla In "Where We Got the Bible", the author, himself a convert from Calvinism, 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. This little book about the Bible grew out of lectures which the writer delivered on the subject to mixed audiences. The lectures were afterwards expanded, and appeared in a series of articles in the Catholic press 1908-9, and are now with slight alterations reprinted. Their origin will sufficiently account for the colloquial style employed throughout. There is, therefore, no pretense either of profound scholarship or of eloquent language; all that is attempted is a popular and, as far as possible, accurate exposition along familiar lines of the Catholic claim historically in regard to the Bible. It is candidly controversial without, however, let us hope, being uncharitable or unfair. (Adapted from the book)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Where We Got the Bible: Our Debt to the Catholic Church
• Author credits: Rev. Henry Grey Graham
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 4:42:48

Catalogue topics

• history
• bible
• Catholic
• Protestant
• translation
• sacred text
• vulgate
• imprimatur

Track guide

1. 00 - Foreword, Introductions and Preface — 23:14
2. 01 - Some Errors Removed — 9:42
3. 02 - The Making of the Old Testament — 7:05
4. 03 - The Church Precedes the New Testament — 19:13
5. 04 - Catholic Church Compiles the New Testament — 21:47
6. 05 - Deficiencies of the Protestant Bible — 15:28
7. 06 - The Originals, and Their Disappearance — 27:25
8. 07 - Variations in the Text Fatal to Protestant Theory — 13:24
9. 08 - Our Debt to the Monks — 24:39
10. 09 - Bible-Reading in the 'Dark Ages' — 18:35
11. 10 - Where Then are the Mediaeval Bibles? — 17:05
12. 11 - Abundance of Vernacular Scriptures Before Wycliff — 24:52
13. 12 - Why Wycliff Was Condemned — 15:18
14. 13 - Tynsdale's Condemnation Vindicated by Posterity — 15:09
15. 14 - A Deluge of Erroneous Versions — 15:37
16. 15 - The Catholic's Bible (Douai) — 8:45
17. 16 - Conclusion — 5:30

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