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In the Beginning Was the Word
Mark A. Noll
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Description for In the Beginning Was the Word
In the Beginning Was the Word provides a sweeping, engaging, and insightful survey of the relationship between the Bible and public issues from the beginning of European settlement through the American Revolution. Num Pages: 448 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; HBJK; HRAM2; HRAX; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 38. Weight in Grams: 703.
In the beginning of American history, the Word was in Spanish, Latin, and native languages like Nahuatal. But while Spanish and Catholic Christianity reached the New World in 1492, it was only with the coming of the Mayflower that English-language Bibles and Protestant Christendom arrived. The Puritans brought with them intense devotion to Scripture, as well as their ideal of Christendom - a civilization characterized by a thorough intermingling of the Bible with everything else. That ideal began this country's journey from the Puritan's City on a Hill to the Bible-quoting country the U.S. remains to this day. In the ... Read more
In the beginning of American history, the Word was in Spanish, Latin, and native languages like Nahuatal. But while Spanish and Catholic Christianity reached the New World in 1492, it was only with the coming of the Mayflower that English-language Bibles and Protestant Christendom arrived. The Puritans brought with them intense devotion to Scripture, as well as their ideal of Christendom - a civilization characterized by a thorough intermingling of the Bible with everything else. That ideal began this country's journey from the Puritan's City on a Hill to the Bible-quoting country the U.S. remains to this day. In the ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190263980
SKU
V9780190263980
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About Mark A. Noll
Mark A. Noll is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame and author of numerous books, including America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (OUP 2002), and Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2011).
Reviews for In the Beginning Was the Word
This is a superb book. In his lucid prose, Noll clarifies a complex topic and weaves an astounding number of sources into an engaging narrative. The result is an authoritative history of the Bible in early America that refocuses our view of the nation and its most influential book.
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