Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States

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Early Americans claimed that they looked to "the Bible alone" for authority, but the Bible was never, ever alone. Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States is a wide-ranging exploration of the place of the Christian Bible in America in the decades after the Revolution. Attending to both theoretical concerns about the nature of scriptur

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"Intriguing study."---Ryan J. Butler, Journal of Ecclesiastical History

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Seth Perry is assistant professor of religion at Princeton University.