Burning to read : English fundamentalism and its Reformation opponents / James Simpson.
Burning to read : English fundamentalism and its Reformation opponents / James Simpson.
Burning to read : English fundamentalism and its Reformation opponents / James Simpson.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N274.206/ 12
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
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.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2007.
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"After exploring the heroism and achievements of sixteenth-century English Lutherans, particularly William Tyndale, Burning to Read turns to the bad news of the Lutheran Bible. Simpson outlines the dark, dynamic, yet demeaning paradoxes of Lutheran reading: its demands that readers hate the biblical text before they can love it; that they be consta...
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Burning to read : English fundamentalism and its Reformation opponents / James Simpson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N274.206/ 12
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74VK3D28j7wd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3D28j7wd
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0674026713 (alk. paper)
9780674026711 (alk. paper)
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274.206
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991023656309702626
