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<p>Early Americans claimed that they looked to "the Bible alone" for authority, but the Bible was never, ever alone. <i>Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States</i> 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 scriptures and to the precise historical circumstances of a formative period in American history, Seth Perry argues that the Bible was not a "source
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- Author
- Seth Perry
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691179131
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Christian, Bible, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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