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Burning to read : English fundamentalism and its Reformation opponents /

Amid present-day conflagrations, this illuminating book reminds us of the sources, and profound consequences, of Christian fundamentalism in the sixteenth century. Simpson focuses on the cultural transformation in early modern England that allowed common people to read the Bible for the first time....

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Simpson, James, 1954-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Two hundred years of biblical violence
  • Good Bible news
  • Salvation, reading, and textual hatred
  • The literal sense and predestination
  • Bible reading, persecution, and paranoia
  • History as error
  • Thomas More and textual trust
  • The tragic scene of early modern reading.