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Opening Scripture

Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England

by Lisa M. Gordis

  • Hardback
  • 272 pages
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • 15.7 x 24.1 x 2.4 cm

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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 - so much complexity, in fact, that controversies over biblical interpretation threatened to tear Puritan society apart. Drawing on Puritan preaching manuals and sermons as well as the texts of early religious controversies, Gordis argues that Puritan ministers did not expect to impose their views on their congregations. Instead they believed that intepretive consensus would emerge from the process of reading the Bible, with the Holy Spirit assisting readers to understand God's will. Treating the conflict over Roger Williams, the Antinomian Controversy and the reluctant compromises of the Halfway Covenant as symptoms of a crisis that was as much literary as it was social or spiritual, "Opening Scripture" explores the profound consequenes of Puritan negotiations over biblical interpretation for New England's literature and history.
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  • Author

    Lisa M. Gordis

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    The University of Chicago Press

  • Published

    March 2003

  • Weight

    573g

  • Page Count

    272

  • Dimensions

    15.7 x 24.1 x 2.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780226304120

  • ISBN-10

    0226304124

  • Eden Code

    1147511

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