Holland, David F.
New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
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Part of the series Religion in America series;Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-275) and index.
- A Bible with the back cover torn off : an introduction — Policing the borders, or, how independent ministers rode the canonical range — Good rulers and better books — Prophets, presidents, and papists : canonical considerations of the early republic — Faith, doubt, and the penning of scripture — Arguments for the possibility are good — Conclusion: A border breached, a God sought, a boundary reinforced.
- Sacred Borders vividly depicts the boundaries of the biblical canon as a battleground on which a diverse group of early Americans contended over their differing versions of divine truth. Puritans, deists, evangelicals, liberals, Shakers, Mormons, Catholics, Seventh-day Adventists, and Transcendentalists defended widely varying positions on how to define the borders of scripture. Carefully exploring the history of these scriptural boundary wars, Holland offers an important new take on the religious cultures of early America.
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