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Book SynopsisThe English Bible in the Early Modern World addresses the most significant book available in the English language in the centuries after the Reformation, and investigates its impact on popular religion and reading practices, and on theology, religious controversy and intellectual history between 1530 and 1700. Individual chapters discuss the responses of both clergy and laity to the sacred text, with particular emphasis on the range of settings in which the Bible was encountered and the variety of responses prompted by engagement with the Scriptures. Particular attention is given to debates around the text and interpretation of the Bible, to an emerging Protestant understanding of Scripture and to challenges it faced over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Contributors 1 Introduction: Protestant England and the English Bible Robert Armstrong 2 ‘So sholde lewde men lerne by ymages’: Religious Imagery and Bible Learning Lucy Wooding 3 The Laity and the Bible in Early Modern England Ian Green 4 Nuts, Kernels, Wading Lambs and Swimming Elephants: Preachers and Their Handling of Biblical Texts Mary Morrissey 5 Early Modern Catholic Perspectives on the Biblical Text: The Bellarmine and Whitaker Debate Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin 6 The Catholic Contribution to the King James Bible Gordon Campbell 7 Bible Reading, Puritan Devotion, and the Transformation of Politics in the English Revolution Crawford Gribben 8 ‘Not the Word of God’: Varieties of Antiscripturism during the English Revolution Ariel Hessayon 9 ‘Syllables governe the world’: Biblical Criticism, Erudition, Heterodoxy and Thomas Hobbes Justin Champion Index
