Studying the Bible

1895

"Now, wholly apart from its religious or from its ethical value, the Bible is the one book that no intelligent person who wishes to come into contact with the world of thought and to share the ideas of the great minds of the Christian era can afford to be ignorant of. All modern literature and all art are permeated with it. There is scarcely a great work in the language that can be fully understood and enjoyed without this knowledge, so full is it of allusions and illustrations from the Bible. This is true of fiction, of poetry, or economic and of philosophic works, and also of the scientific and even agnostic treatises. It is not at all a question of religion or theology, or of dogma; it is a question of general intelligence." — C. D. Warner.