Title: Outdated, Only Valuable as History
Product review: Washington Gladden was a Progressive that wrote "Who Wrote the Bible?" in the year 1901. Many of the arguments in this book are outdated, disproved ideas of liberal theology. For instance, on the Bible Gladden writes that the Greek word "graphe", translated "Scripture", was not used as it is today until after 400 A. D. This was questionable in Gladden's day and has been proved false by archaeology, most notably by the discovery of a fragment of the Gospel of John dated at 125 A. D. John's gospel uses "Scripture" in a similar form that Christians use it today.Gladden was a revisionist who wanted a religion that would support the idea of the Kingdom of God on this earth (see Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Gladden). This book is an interesting study into the theologically liberal mind of the 20th century, but is not a book that one can depend on for factual information about the origin of the Bible.
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