Opening Scripture Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England

Name: Opening Scripture Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England
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ISBN: 9780226304120

ISBN-10: 0226304124

ISBN-13: 9780226304120

Edition: 2003

Authors: Lisa M. Gordis

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What role did the Bible really play in Puritan New England? Many have treated it as a blunt instrument used to cudgel dissenters into submission, but Lisa M. Gordis reveals instead that Puritan readings of the Bible showed great complexity and literary sophistication.

Book details

List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.92" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Opening the Text



"Humane Skill" and "The Arte of Prophecying"



John Cotton: Reading, Preaching, and the Rhetoric of Inevitability



Thomas Shepard: God's Word and God's Words



Applying the Word Home: Thomas Hooker's Affective Reading and Preaching



"Goe Home and Consider": Lay Responses to the Preached Text



"Mist and Fog": Roger Williams and the Problem of Interpretation



"All the Strife amongst Us": Consensus, Reading, and Revelation in the Antinomian Controversy


Epilogue: Interpretive Expertise and Questions of Baptism



The Problem of the Texts


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index