1908 Roman Catholic and Protestant Bibles Compared

This is a thoughtful, early 20th-century theological work that does something most modern readers never see done carefully: it places Roman Catholic and Protestant Bibles side by side and asks why they differ—canon, authority, tradition, and interpretation—without caricature.

Published as part of the Gould Prize Essays, this volume represents serious academic Christianity before polemics hardened into slogans. It was written for readers who cared about history, sources, and intellectual honesty rather than denominational loyalty.

This is the second, revised edition (1908), expanded from the original 1905 publication and supplemented with appendices and a composite bibliography covering the broader literature of the subject. It reflects the state of biblical scholarship at a pivotal moment—when higher criticism, church history, and textual studies were reshaping how Scripture itself was understood.

Details

• Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons (New York)

• Year: 1908

• Format: Hardcover, original cloth

• Language: English

Why we like it

This isn’t a devotional book and it isn’t propaganda. It’s a historical artifact from a time when Christians still argued across traditions with footnotes instead of soundbites. If you study church history, biblical canon, or the long divide between Catholic and Protestant thought, this book belongs on your shelf.