An Episcopal clergyman tells his congregation that the doctrine of an infallible Bible has no sanction in the Church and no support in the Scriptures themselves. In its place he offers the real Bible: the venerable literature of Israel and the early Christian church, to be read as history, poetry and drama, with the Song of Songs as a test case.
A frank example of nineteenth-century liberal Protestant preaching on how to read Scripture after the higher criticism. Download the free EPUB.