God and the Bible: (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Review of Objections to 'Literature and Dogma'

“At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.” In this towering 1875 work, Arnold grapples with the problem of finding religious meaning in a scientific age.