For many centuries the Catholic Church kept the Gospels from the eyes of the ordinary believer. If you couldn’t read Latin you were dependent on the oral tradition, the paintings on the church walls, and the preaching of the local parish priest. Putting the Bible in the hands of the people, or at least of those who could read, was a concern of the sixteenth-century Reformers. (...)
November 30, 1999
Books
Sola Scriptura
Reading Jesus A Writer’s Encounter with the Gospels Mary GordonPantheon, $24.95, 228 pp.
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