The Bible in America, America in the Bible
By Seth Perry (PhD’13), Princeton University
Seth Perry investigates “Americanized bibles” – bibles that include an array of extra-scriptural material emphasizing the Bible’s importance to America. These bibles participate, Perry argues, in a “longstanding tradition of American biblicism: emphasizing the singular efficacy of the bible while heavily supplementing, summarizing, and explaining the Bible.”
Read The Bible in America, America in the Bible.
Read the invited response by:
David Swartz (Asbury University).
Image: The American Patriot’s Bible: The Word of God and the Shaping of America, edited by Richard G. Lee (Thomas Nelson 2009).