The Literary Primacy of the Bible

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The Literary Primacy of the Bible
G P George Peck Eckman
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After the gloomy night of the middle cen- turies had passed away, a revival of learning having brought scholars to the study of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, the Bible, which had been so great a power in training the early church, came to be the force which upheaved ecclesiastical traditions and institutions, and created grave alarm among the priestly authorities of the Church. It would be most profitable to survey the reforms which swept over Europe in consequence of the rediscovery of the
...Bible, but names must stand to us for epochal movements. Peter Waldo and his poor men of Lyons, the Albigenses, Wiclif, Huss, Tyndale, Luther, Calvin, Erasmus, Zwingli, Melanchthon, Knox, and others figures which represent the whole stream of influences which culminated in the spiritual and churchly reformation of the sixteenth cen- tury sprang into the arena with the Bible in their hands.
That the church would resist this movement was inevitable. Its hostility extended all the way from ignorant assaults upon the Scrip- 144 THE LITERARY PRIMACY tures themselves to brutal persecutions of those who sought the religious freedom offered to them in the Bible.


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